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Article: Bigger Than Jesus: a challenging gospel for our time.(PLAY)(Theater Review)
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- Catholic New Times
- Article date:
- October 9, 2005
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Rick Miller and Daniel Brooks have collaborated on a Jesus play which asks all the right questions without being cloying, sentimental or didactic.
Already a Dora award winner, Bigger Than Jesus is the best postmodern Jesus play that you are likely to see now and in the future. This is a mature play of utmost seriousness, one whose theological underpinnings renders its popular predecessors Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar as both dated and lacking theological substance. It compares favourably with the late Harry Chapin's adaptation of Clarence Jordan's Cotton Patch Gospels.
Assuredly, this brilliantly executed and flawlessly directed one man tour de ...
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