I cannot tell you how much I hate this world. My hate is without limits. Given the chance, my hate is under such pressure that it would fill all space. This world is a dense ball of shit. The people on it are small and nameless burrowing insects. And I am not even one of them. I am not even allowed into their shit society. I am stuck up here, alone, misformed, like a maggot with two heads instead of one.

Every man in Paris is in love with Esmeralda, the beautiful gipsy dancer, including the Archdeacon of Notre Dame. When his twisted obsession leads him to frame her for murder, Quazimodo, the deformed bell-ringer, rescues her and hides her in the tower of Notre Dame.  There, Esmeralda meets the hunchback's only friends, two female gargoyles, who observe and protect the cathedral. Quazimodo professes his love for Esmeralda, but she has been raised with a terrible aesthetic code that shuns ugliness. Quazimodo's frustration with Esmeralda and the world around him is pushed to the brink, and threatens to shatter both their lives. 

Quazimodo! is a tragedy with jokes, loosely adapted from Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). The play was first performed in October, 1993, in New York City, and was subsequently published by the Dramatic Publishing Company. Since its publication, the play has been produced many times around the United States, and was recently produced in Australia.