Steambath by Bruce Jay Friedman ". . . taunts and tickles the mind and calls us on the carpet for our mortal snobbery . . . an incorrigibly funny play that stops at nothing." - Life Magazine.
Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman's razor-sharp and still outrageous comedy portrays God as an overworked steambath attendant who doles out "wrath" and "blessed events" in between assignments of scrubbing floors and walls.
Steambath was made into a film for television in 1973 and starred Bill Bixby and Valerie Perrine, along with Jose Perez, as the wisecracking, blasé, card-trick-playing Lord, who watches while a collection of assorted types - a juvenile delinquent, an old time seaman, a naked ingénue, a Jewish guy nurtured on 30's culture, a pair of elderly homosexual men, and a gambler addicted to the stock market - sit amidst the sweat and mist seemingly uncertain of exactly why they are there.