In colder blood. (Front and Center: Chicago).(Play)
American Theatre, May, 2003 by Goddu, Jenn Q.
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IT WAS WHEN JIM GRIMSLEY realized he was writing a comic monologue for the massively overweight mother of a charismatic serial killer that he said to himself, "Maybe I do need therapy."
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It's not surprising this thought might surface during the three years that Grimsley spent immersed in gruesome detail for his new play Fascination, whose protagonist, Randall Bartelman--a composite of the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy--has murdered more than 40 young men. "It was hard reading all those books, but at the same time, I discovered that my growing ...
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