Kneading Bread

I stopped posting about what I like to call “chrisitians behaving badly,” but today I must post again (pedophile pastors and swindling sextons get a little old after a while.)

At the American Repertory Theater down in Cambridge a monologue was interrupted by a surreal act of “christian” [cowardice, avarice, malice, spite, bad taste, mass-hysteria], I don’t even know what to say, except I’m sorry. A group of “christians” walked out on a Performance of Mike Daisey’s invincible summer, but did so in a most disturbing fashion.

From Mike’s own blog posting (comments on the ART’s blog):

Last night’s performance of INVINCIBLE SUMMER was disrupted when eighty seven members of a Christian group walked out of the show en masse, and chose to physically attack my work by pouring water on and destroying the original of the show outline.

I’m still dealing with all the ramifications, but here’s what it felt like from my end: I am performing the show to a packed house, when suddenly the lights start coming up in the house as a flood of people start walking down the aisles–they looked like a flock of birds who’d been startled, the way they all moved so quickly, and at the same moment…it was shocking, to see them surging down the aisles. The show halted as they fled, and at this moment a member of their group strode up to the table,  stood looking down on me and poured water all over the outline, drenching everything in a kind of anti-baptism.

FYI, there’s some foul language in the clip, if you’re so inclined to avoid that, please do.

Thanks to BoingBoing