GOD/HEAD

So there’s this writer.

Thirtysomething, gay, lefty metropolitan writer. Atheist, obviously.

History of mental health problems, but those are all in the past.
Sure of himself and his world view. Comfortable in his assumptions.

And then one day, suddenly, without any warning…

There’s God.

GOD/HEAD is a brand new theatre piece from Chris Goode & Company that draws on Chris’s own recent experiences of spiritual turmoil following a long personal history of comfortable atheism. The familiar ‘crisis of faith’ narrative is turned on its head as Chris is compelled to wonder: what if there really is a God after all?

GOD/HEAD explores the context of these experiences, especially in relation to Chris’s past history of mental health problems including paranoid delusions, prompting him to investigate the borderzone between spiritual experience and neuroscience. The piece also considers the possible connections between religious epiphany and other intense and unshareable experiences at the edges of language and desire, where words fail us and our personal universe tilts.

In GOD/HEAD Chris is joined by a special guest performer every night, with whom he will have worked during the day to remake and remix some material, meaning each evening’s performance is a unique version of the show.

IMAGES

Credit: Ed Collier

REVIEWS

“Intelligent and emotionally questing, it thinks out loud about transcendence, openness, loneliness in the face of a vast universe… always humble, always thoughtful and very brave.” The Guardian

“This piece of devised theatre is as close to divine as anyone could pray for on a rainy night in South London.” Exuent ****

“A truly fascinating show… Goode remains a theatre-maker who will keep hunting down the god-(less?) honest truth” Whatsonstage.com ****

CREDITS

Writer / Director / Performer – Chris Goode
Director – Wendy Hubbard
Designer – James Lewis
Lighting Designer – Katharine Williams
Producer – Ric Watts

A Chris Goode & Company production
Produced in association with Ovalhouse and Theatre in the Mill
Created with the support of Schtanhaus, the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, University of Cambridge, and the Jerwood Space.

DATES

Upcoming

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History

November 2012 Bristol Old Vic

May 2012 Theatre in the Mill, Bradford

February 2012 Ovalhouse, London