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GOD/HEAD: Chris Goode’s God Experience – An Interview [Part Two]
Posted on 09/05/2012 | 2 CommentsMy interview with Chris Goode, creator and performer of GOD/HEAD, concludes below. (Read part one here.) Chris, an atheist theatre artist processing a ‘God experience’, talks about partnering with other artists, the relationship between God, religion, and brain chemistry, and... -
GOD/HEAD: Chris Goode’s God Experience – An Interview [Part One]
Posted on 07/05/2012 | No CommentsAs a Transpositions contributor, I was invited to view Chris Goode’s new show GOD/HEAD during its recent London run and interview its creator. In a recent post, Jenn Craft suggested that ‘one might encounter God through an atheist’s work‘; this interview presents an atheist artist’s... -
Virtually Present: Theatre, Embodiment, and the Incarnation
Posted on 06/04/2012 | 6 CommentsAt what point can a work of theatre no longer be called a work of theatre? While definitions may be elusive (springing as they do from ever-changing experience), they serve a useful function: setting one thing apart from another. Sometimes... -
Is There Holy Digital Ground?
Posted on 05/04/2012 | 1 CommentIn the rehearsal room of Friargate Theatre, York, I sat with my friend and collaborator as we created a piece of theatre; we were both barefoot — and rightly so, for this, like all rehearsal spaces, was ‘holy ground’. Holy... -
“I’m Going to Lie to Lots of People”: Mike Daisey & Theatrical Fiction
Posted on 28/03/2012 | 8 CommentsOn January 6, 2012, the public radio show This American Life aired an excerpt from monologuist Mike Daisey‘s show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. Daisey describes a trip to the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, which makes Apple products. During... -
Children of Eden – A World in Search of a Gospel
Posted on 29/02/2012 | No CommentsIn a previous post, I outlined C.S. Lewis’s guidelines for a Christian journal, in which he suggests that Christians who do have evangelistic aims with their work can accomplish those aims more effectively by not creating explicitly evangelistic work, but... -
Wearing Out the Faith
Posted on 07/02/2012 | 5 CommentsI had a friend in high school who had a bumpersticker on her car that read, “Warning: in case of rapture car will be unmanned.” I wasn’t theologically settled against a pretribution rapture at the time, and yet I found...
