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| "The Gospel of John" is an amazing
achievement. That needs to be said again. "The Gospel of John" is an amazing
achievement. Atlanta actor Brad Sherrill, who created this original piece
and performs it ... has taken the words of the New Testament's fourth
book and, with his voice, his imagination and a few props, shaped it into
a transforming two hours of theater..." |
| "In the beginning was the Word, and it was action-packed. Forget your Sunday-school Jesus and his 12 dainty disciples. "The Gospel of John," ... is a sweaty, gritty tale of a miracle-working idealist who runs afoul of the law. Passion, longing, envy, greed, ambition, intrigue and betrayal -- it's all here, and it is riveting. Actor Brad Sherrill reimagines the fourth gospel as a one-man play in which a storyteller -- John -- relates the adventures of Jesus to a crowd of unbelievers -- the audience. In telling the story, John inhabits dozens of other characters, from the skeptical Samaritan woman at the well to the genial carpenter from Nazareth." -The
Washington Postl "Few
actors have the courage or the talent to attempt a one-person performance,
but Brad Sherrill plans to use the opportunity to go back to the basics
of gospel. Using the New International Version translation, Sherrill
plans to narrate the entire fourth synoptic gospel. "The Gospels initially,
of course, were intended to be heard, not read. I find it thrilling
that, as an actor playing out this material, I find myself in a long
line of the great oral tradition — a culture’s collective stories...spoken
out to the community," said Sherrill. "This is how John is meant to
be heard."
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