Contents Dramatis Personae
ix
Foreword by Stephen Adly Guirgis
xi
Prologue
xv
Act 1: Into the Deep End
1 7
About Judas
The Birth of a God-Haunted Play
15
The Making of a Playwright
19
Who Killed Jesus?
28
A Study in Despair
41
“I Don’t Know, Man . . .”
49
Act 2: Teasing the Mind into Active Thought
The LAByrinth Theater Company
53 54
Readings
58
“You Wanna Do This Role?”
61
The Gospel According to Phil
66
Searching for God, Jesus, and the Buddha
71
The Jesus of History
80
Living with the Saints
87
The Woman from Magdala
93
Poverty of Spirit
100
Taking the Story Seriously
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