How Well Do You Know Your Bible?

How Well Do You Know Your Bible?

“a thoughtful and fun meditation both on Christian influence on culture, and on the nature of memory.” - Word on the Street

The Making Friends Collective presents The Good News, a show about Bible stories and spontaneous storytelling where every chapter and verse is presented as recalled: muddled, misremembered and massively mixed up.

Johnny Crawford (lapsed Catholic) and Adam Goodall (Anglican dropout) wanted to know how well people knew their Bible stories, so they’ve asked friends, family, strangers and colleagues to retell them: no cues, no corrections, no “ask me laters”. With the help of three eager young sermonisers, they’re serving up chopped and screwed versions of classic tales like the Creation, the Birth of Jesus and the Book of Revelations. This is the Good Book, one mistake at a time.

In the fine oral tradition of Drunk History and the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, the Making Friends Collective are taking you back to SundaySchool with The Good News, a scrappy, hilarious, high-energy look at our relationship with religion and the stories we use to define ourselves.

The Making Friends Collective is Adam Goodall, Johnny Crawford, Andrew Clarke, Tony black and Flinn Gendall. The Good News (previously BATS Theatre, March 2015) is their sixth production, following Rageface (Fringe at the Gryphon, February 2013, nominated for Best Newcomers at the New Zealand Fringe Awards 2013), Stages of Fear (BATS Theatre, October 2013), Euthermia/Hyperpyrexia (BATS Theatre, New Zealand Fringe Festival 2014), Proficiency Test (Wellington High School, New Zealand Fringe Festival 2014; winner of the Gold Nugget Award at the New Zealand Fringe Awards 2015) and Game Day (New Zealand Fringe Festival 2015).

Tickets to The Good News can be booked online at www.thedarkroomnz.com or by call (06) 354 5740. Tickets are $18 full or $14 concession.

WHAT: The Making Friends Collective presents The Good News

WHERE: The Dark Room, cnr. Church and Pitt Streets, opposite Centrepoint, Palmerston North

WHEN: 7:30pm, 3rd and 4th July 2015

WHO:

Directed by Adam Goodall and Johnny Crawford

Interviews conducted by Johnny Crawford and Adam Goodall

Starring Amy Griffin-Brown (Mothy), Harriet Hughes (28 Days: A Period Piece) and James Cain (Gift of the Gab)

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