I’ve been thinking about this post a bit over the past few days and I feel that I should point out that my earlier comment of It did turn out to be an hour and a half of “Jesus is awesome!” may have come across as slagging Christianity, which was definitely not my intent. My intent was simply to point out that there was a definite lack of nuance and that the play had little purpose other than to proselytize.

Depending on your point of view, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, like I mentioned in my initial post (the review itself came in the comments section), I actually would have been totally OK with a piece of evangelical theatre as long as I felt that the production was better than what I ultimately saw.

Even though I didn’t find the hostage-taker’s conversion particularly convincing, the story actually had the potential to be entertaining. I just felt that it was not well executed. My review was harsh, I admit, but it was my honest impression of the play.

First, I’d like to preface my comments by saying that I am a “born again Christian” from a Baptist background (one grandfather, two uncles, and a cousin are all Baptist ministers!) and that I think it’s wonderful that your play worked to bring a message of salvation to the predominantely God-less Fringe Festival.

I find you comments above discouraging, though. I understand that Adam gave you a fairly lousy review, and that sucks, but your reply is not only confrontational, it also implies there’s something wrong with Adam because he “didn’t get it.”

Perhaps a more graceful, Christ-like response could have been effected? After all, the play isn’t really “about” you…

But, I stand by my comments. I didn’t find the acting particularly believable, with the exception of Meghan Koshman (she’s a good actor, and it didn’t hurt that Becky was the best written character). The staging was awkward—I felt like the raised stage area should have been taken advantage of, as it was sometimes difficult to see the action.

All of that said, I was clearly not the target audience, but I like to think that I went in with an open mind. In the end, it didn’t do anything for me. It clearly did work for others, but I guess I was hoping for a play that would present a more rigorous theological debate than I was given.

I may check out Call Me a Liar if I can fit it into my Fringe schedule. Thanks for the suggestion.