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Here’s the poster for the November show. Work is by Dan Fritschie of Tulsa, OK. Let me know if you’d like to get a hold of him. He’s brilliant.
BAY Press Release
Press Release
Nightingale Theater
1416 East 4th Street, Tulsa, OK 74120
For Immediate Release
Date: 10/21/2009
Contact: Amber Whitlatch
Phone: 918.633.8666
Email: info@ nightingaletheater.com
Web page: www.nightingaletheater.com
Nightingale Theatre presents Justin McKean’s “Born Again Yesterday”
Sunday, November 15th and Sunday, November 22nd
7:00 pm both Sundays
Tickets are $10
Call 918.633.8666 for reservations.
Former Fundamentalist Pokes Fun at the Faith-free and the Faithful
Faith is a journey. This is the tale of the long, awkward trip back.
Justin McKean’s “Born Again Yesterday” guides the audience through a hilarious maze of experiences drawn from the author’s life as a strict fundamentalist. “Everything in the play is based on something I did, or saw or heard,” McKean says.
Laughing at himself through this two-hour comedy, McKean hopes to build bridges. “The point of the play is to humanize, not demonize,” he says. “Christians who see it understand this quickly. They laugh more loudly than the non-religious people. I think this is because they know the people in the play very, very well. They’ve been to church with them. They have had potluck dinners with them. They went to church camp with them. You can love your family and still roll your eyes at them sometimes.”
McKean calls his fellow atheists out as well. One character wants to participate in “National Blasphemy Day” by defacing a religious symbol. “That’s just stupid,” the main character replies. “Being non-religious doesn’t mean you’re being intelligent,” says McKean. “There’s nothing smart or clever about picking fights. We’re neighbors, right? We need to be able to work and play and live together if we’re ever going to make this world a better place.”
Most of the play is comedy, but there are moments of sadness. “I’ve made people cry,” McKean says. “The show is based on a true story, and when I found that I’d lost my ability to believe the same things I did as a child, it truly devastated me.” These teary moments have a lighter side, too. “I’m a happy guy. I don’t take things too seriously, so there’s always a joke in there. In the saddest moments of life you have to laugh through the tears.”
The story ends on a note of joy and hope with a plea to the audience to work together in their community locally and globally. “There are more important conversations to have than why I’m wrong and you’re right, or vice versa,” McKean says. “People need food and medical care. Seems like there’s a war on that we might want to find a resolution for. Surely a God would rather we argue about our differences after we’ve solved a few more pressing problems.”
Born Again Yesterday will be performed two Sundays in a row, November 15th and 22nd, at the Nightingale Theater. Showtime is 7pm on both days. Tickets are $10. For more info call 918-633-8666 or go to www.nightingaletheater.com.
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Press Release
Nightingale Theater
1416 East 4th Street, Tulsa, OK 74120
For Immediate Release
Date: 10/21/2009
Contact: Amber Whitlatch
Phone: 918.633.8666
Email: info@ nightingaletheater.com
Web page: www.nightingaletheater.com
Nightingale Theatre presents Justin McKean’s “Born Again Yesterday”
Sunday, November 15th and Sunday, November 22nd
7:00 pm both Sundays
Tickets are $10
Call 918.633.8666 for reservations.
Former Fundamentalist Pokes Fun at the Faith-free and the Faithful
Faith is a journey. This is the tale of the long, awkward trip back.
Justin McKean’s “Born Again Yesterday” guides the audience through a hilarious maze of experiences drawn from the author’s life as a strict fundamentalist. “Everything in the play is based on something I did, or saw or heard,” McKean says.
Laughing at himself through this two-hour comedy, McKean hopes to build bridges. “The point of the play is to humanize, not demonize,” he says. “Christians who see it understand this quickly. They laugh more loudly than the non-religious people. I think this is because they know the people in the play very, very well. They’ve been to church with them. They have had potluck dinners with them. They went to church camp with them. You can love your family and still roll your eyes at them sometimes.”
McKean calls his fellow atheists out as well. One character wants to participate in “National Blasphemy Day” by defacing a religious symbol. “That’s just stupid,” the main character replies. “Being non-religious doesn’t mean you’re being intelligent,” says McKean. “There’s nothing smart or clever about picking fights. We’re neighbors, right? We need to be able to work and play and live together if we’re ever going to make this world a better place.”
Most of the play is comedy, but there are moments of sadness. “I’ve made people cry,” McKean says. “The show is based on a true story, and when I found that I’d lost my ability to believe the same things I did as a child, it truly devastated me.” These teary moments have a lighter side, too. “I’m a happy guy. I don’t take things too seriously, so there’s always a joke in there. In the saddest moments of life you have to laugh through the tears.”
The story ends on a note of joy and hope with a plea to the audience to work together in their community locally and globally. “There are more important conversations to have than why I’m wrong and you’re right, or vice versa,” McKean says. “People need food and medical care. Seems like there’s a war on that we might want to find a resolution for. Surely a God would rather we argue about our differences after we’ve solved a few more pressing problems.”
Born Again Yesterday will be performed two Sundays in a row, November 15th and 22nd, at the Nightingale Theater. Showtime is 7pm on both days. Tickets are $10. For more info call 918-633-8666 or go to www.nightingaletheater.com.
The biggest critics of an Improviser, outside him- or herself, will be those who do not Improvise yet who feel qualified to critique the effort. There is never anything constructive in such criticism. The only “good” thing about such criticism is that it is free and abundant.
I have another blog on WordPress that is even more neglected than this one has become. (Hard to believe? I know.) It’s called “That Writer Guy” and it holds some poetry and prose offerings. Some of it is good. Some of it is mediocre. I didn’t care about that. I just felt like posting it.
Every once in a while I get a comment that basically reads like this:
“Your writing is shit. You should kill yourself.”
I’m not kidding. Go look. They tell me to kill myself. Heh. I’ve been there. We’ll talk about that in another post.
Now, don’t misunderstand this post. I’m narcissistic-ly aware that I’m a good writer. Not only do I feel this is true; I’ve been told this waaaaay too often to not believe it. So I’m not looking for sympathy. I’m pointing something out.
There will always be commentary. On everything you do. And a lot of the time someone who is too lazy/cowardly/unimaginative to do what you’re attempting will come at you out of left field and tell you that you are shit and you should die.
Here’s what I say in response:
“Thank you for your comment, [insert name]. Have a nice day.”
And then we go on, forgetting about Mr. or Ms. Cowardly Unhelpful and doing what we can to make the world more beautiful.
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