Marcus Gardley’s …and Jesus Moonwalks Is A Triumph!
Spring is here—and Miss Sip is heating up, flooding the bayou with her alluvia lace!
Don’t miss Playwrights Foundation and The Cutting Ball Theater’s co-production of Marcus Gardley’s …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi. It’s bringin’ down the house!
After five years in development, our passionate dedication to advancing this play to the stage is reaping rewards—for Mr. Gardley and for audiences. Tickets are going really fast, the play runs Thursday to Sunday, through April 11th.
Full details and tickets can be found at www.cuttingball.com or by calling 800-838-3006.
| “When you go to see [the play]—which you should—it feels like what you’re witnessing is not just a fascinating new play, but an important one …Suffused with metaphor and mixed mythology, it’s more challenging than your average new play, and it’s a challenge that’s richly rewarded in the Cutting Ball Theater and Playwrights Foundation co-production…” |
-Sam Hurwitt
Critic, Marin Independit Journal |
| “It’s the story that compels, but it’s Gardley’s writing that fascinates. Powerful, mesmerizing and complete with bolts of humor and tragedy, …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi is an intimate epic that pulses with power and beauty.” |
-Chad Jones
Theater Critic and Blogger, Theater Dogs |
| “In this inspired poetical-historical counter-narrative …Greek mythology, African American folklore, personal family history, and Christian theology are all drawn irresistibly along in a great sweep of wild and incisive humor, passion, pathos and rousing gospel music as buoyant and wide as the Mississippi… a work both magnificently simple and eloquently evocative.” |
-Robert Avila
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Happy Spring!
Amy Mueller
Artistic Director
About the play:
Set on the banks of the Mississippi during the Civil War, …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi is a poetic journey of forgiveness and redemption inspired by the myth of Demeter and Persephone. This thought-provoking play combines traditional storytelling, gospel music, and a wicked sense of humor to create a rich, imaginative world that allows trees to preach, rivers to waltz, and Jesus to moonwalk. |
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