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CORPUS CHRISTI was written by Terrence McNally largely as a reaction to a very terrible thing that was done to a young man called Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. To quote Mr. McNally in his Intro:

"Beaten senseless and tied to a split-rail fence in near-zero weather, arms akimbo in a grotesque crucifixion, he died as agonizing a death as another young man who had been tortured and nailed to a wooden cross at a desolate spot outside Jerusalem known as Golgotha some 1,998 years earlier. They died, as they lived, as brothers. Jesus Christ did not die in vain because His disciples lived to spread his story. It is this generation's duty to make certain Matthew Shepard did not die in vain either."

CORPUS CHRISTI retells the story of Christ and his apostles, changing the setting to the Corpus Christi, Texas, of the recent past and the apostles to a group of young gay men.  It is not written as a literal retelling.  Most of the familiar figures of the gospel are represented by modern counterparts,

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