the play.
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Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi is a retelling of the Jesus story, with Jesus as a gay man living in 1950s Corpus Christi, Texas. The show originally opened at the Manhattan Theatre Club in NYC, 1998 to intense protest and bomb threats. Deemed by religious zealots as “blasphemous,” the shock and controversy it created before it opened easily overshadowed McNally’s original intention in creating the piece: inclusive love for all people.
108 Productions has seen international acclaim since its revival tour of the play in 2006. It continued to sell-out audiences for months at Los Angeles’ Zephyr Theatre and went on to tour across America. In Europe, the play was an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression nominee at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was awarded the Intercultural Dialogue Award at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in 2008. Following, the company celebrated the show’s 10th anniversary Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Theatre, benefiting the Matthew Shepard Foundation and New York’s Gay Community Center, and was invited to perform at the MCC International Conference in Acapulco. The show continues to tour to less tolerant communities around the world.
Click here to see our tour history.
108 Productions has seen international acclaim since its revival tour of the play in 2006. It continued to sell-out audiences for months at Los Angeles’ Zephyr Theatre and went on to tour across America. In Europe, the play was an Amnesty International Freedom of Expression nominee at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was awarded the Intercultural Dialogue Award at the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival in 2008. Following, the company celebrated the show’s 10th anniversary Off-Broadway at the Rattlestick Theatre, benefiting the Matthew Shepard Foundation and New York’s Gay Community Center, and was invited to perform at the MCC International Conference in Acapulco. The show continues to tour to less tolerant communities around the world.
Click here to see our tour history.
the film.
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In this feature documentary, anti-gay religious groups meet "the gay Jesus play." The film follows the troupe, playwright, and audiences across the U.S. and around the world on a 5-year journey of Terrence McNally's passion play, where voices of protest and support collide on one of the central issues facing the LGBT community - religion based bias. Challenging issues of civil rights, marriage equality and separation of church and state, this production has become a remarkable vehicle of positive change for a community struggling to find its voice.
Meanwhile, the company of actors finds itself on a journey that would forever change their lives.
Meanwhile, the company of actors finds itself on a journey that would forever change their lives.
the campaign.
Through a combination screening of the film, performances of the play, and educational outreach, The
I AM Love Campaign's Vision is to facilitate a deeper conversation on acceptance and tolerance of all creeds, ages, races, orientations, and genders by allowing a deeper connection to self-love, knowing from this place of awareness real change will manifest. Learn more.
I AM Love Campaign's Vision is to facilitate a deeper conversation on acceptance and tolerance of all creeds, ages, races, orientations, and genders by allowing a deeper connection to self-love, knowing from this place of awareness real change will manifest. Learn more.
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