Event

Church

Church
by Young Jean Lee, directed by Brien Lang

DECEMBER 7-23

Acclaimed playwright and director Young Jean Lee (Straight White Men) transforms a life-long struggle with organized religion into an exuberant church service. Both celebratory and confrontational, Church will test the expectations of religious and non-religious alikelooking deep into why we believe what we believe.

[Lees] slyly subversive drama ambushes its audience with an earnest and surprisingly moving Christian church service that might be the most unlikely provocation produced in yearsMs. Lee has a talent for evocative and sometimes grotesque imagery, and on the attack she is at the height of her powers. --The New York Times

Lees writing displays her customary surgical precision and menace, a rhetorically supple mix of invective and goofiness. And while she uses parable and drops the odd Biblical phraseshe seems more intent on roasting her audiences secular complacency than blaspheming or exposing the machinery of belief--Time Out NY