CHURCH
Written by Young Jean Lee
Directed by Matt Slaybaugh.

Featuring Acacia Duncan, Eleni Papaleonardos, Ian Short, and Kate Watts.

Sound Design by Dave Wallingford.
Lighting Design by Ryan Osborn.
Stage Management by Michelle Whited.

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All performances @
Studio 2 @ the Vern Riffe Center
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77 South High Street

Thursday, August 13 @ 8pm - with cupcakes + TALKBACK
Friday, August 14 @ 8pm + TALKBACK
Saturday, August 15 @ 8pm + TALKBACK
Sunday, August 16 @ 2pm

Wednesday, Aug. 19 @ 5:30pm - with dinner at Barcelona
Thursday, August 20 @ 8pm - with the Katzinger's toast bar + TALKBACK
Friday, August 21 @ 12pm - with lunch from Tip-Top
Friday, August 21 @ 8pm + TALKBACK
Saturday, August 22 @ 8pm + TALKBACK

JUST ADDED: Friday, August 28 @ 8pm + TALKBACK

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Columbus Dispatch Review
Columbus Alive Review
Metromix Review
Theatrevault dot com Review
Columbus Underground
Greatest City of All

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FROM the BLOG

The NY Times on Church

Posted by Slay on Friday, June 26, 2009

The New York Times had a great review and a little slide-show about Church from when it was in NYC at PS122. The audio/photo bit is great because Young Jean Lee talks about her personal experience with religion a bit. (Once you go here, click on “LEE” to skip to her part.)

Here’s an excerpt from the review:

People of faith are often treated as either jokes or villains in the downtown theater scene, but that may be starting to change.

Still, most seasoned audiences would expect that a drama by an experimental playwright at Performance Space 122 featuring four ministers discussing God’s glory is inviting smirks. But Young Jean Lee, who wrote and directed “Church,” isn’t joking — or if she is, the joke is on us. Her slyly subversive drama ambushes its audience with an earnest and surprisingly moving Christian church service that might be the most unlikely provocation produced in years.

With a cast of speakers, Ms. Lee, described in the press materials as a nonbelieving daughter of Korean-American evangelicals, portrays the kind of Christians secular downtown hipsters may find hard to dismiss: open-minded, liberal, tolerant.

“I don’t know that God exists any more than I know that God doesn’t exist,” says José (Greg Hildreth), a cerebral minister who mocks the arm-flailing brand of preacher sent up by the performance artist Reverend Billy. “The truth is that the world is a mystery.”