A Jesuit Off-Broadway

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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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