Church
by Young Jean Lee

Name: Church
Brand: Young Jean Lee
SKU: 9780822235989
Rating: 3.73 (21 reviews)

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

75 minsPresent DayRole(s) for Asian Actor(s)Unit Set/Multiple SettingsContemporary Costumes/Street ClothesAmerican Religious Christmas

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the engaging and multifaceted nature of the play, noting how it intertwines humor and deep themes. Many find the exploration of religious trauma both refreshing and thought-provoking, despite its somewhat abstract monologues.

Engaging and funThought-provoking themesUnique writing styleAbstract monologues may confuse some

Synopsis

Acclaimed playwright and director Young Jean Lee transforms her life-long struggle with Christianity into an exuberant church service.

Both celebratory and confrontational, CHURCH will test the expectations of religious and non-religious alike—looking deep into why we believe what we believe.

Press Reviews

"[Lee’s] 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…the point here is not to convert so much as to confront. Ms. 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“Lee’s 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 phrase…she seems more intent on roasting her audience’s secular complacency than blaspheming or exposing the machinery of belief."
— Time Out New York