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How well do you know your Bible?

How well do you know your Bible?

Media Release For Immediate Release: 09/03/2015

From the exciting young company behind Rageface and Proficiency Test comes The Good News, a show about Bible stories and spontaneous storytelling where every chapter and verse is presented as recalled: muddled, misremembered and massively mixed up.

Johnny Crawford (lapsed Catholic) and Adam Goodall (Anglican dropout) wanted to know how well people knew their Bible stories, so they've asked friends, family, strangers and colleagues to retell them: no cues, no corrections, no "ask me laters". Join the Making Friends Collective as three eager young sermonisers present to you chopped and screwed versions of classic tales like the Creation, the Birth of Jesus and the Book of Revelations. This is the Good Book, one mistake at a time.

Following in the fine oral tradition of Drunk History and the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, the Making Friends Collective are taking you back to Sunday School with The Good News, a scrappy, hilarious, high-energy look at our relationship with religion and the stories we use to define ourselves.

The Making Friends Collective is Adam Goodall, Johnny Crawford, Andrew Clarke, Tony Black and Flinn Gendall. The Good News is their sixth production, following Rageface (Fringe at the Gryphon, February 2013; nominated for Best Newcomers at the New Zealand Fringe Awards 2013), Stages of Fear (BATS Theatre, October 2013), Euthermia/Hyperpyrexia (BATS Theatre, New Zealand Fringe Festival 2014), Proficiency Test (Wellington High School, New Zealand Fringe Festival 2015) and Game Day (New Zealand Fringe Festival 2015).

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Tickets to The Good News can be booked online at www.bats.co.nz or by calling (04) 802 4175. Tickets are $18 full or $14 concession.

WHAT: The Making Friends Collective presents The Good News

WHERE: BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Terrace, Wellington

WHEN: 7pm, 24 to 28 March 2015

WHO:

Directed by Adam Goodall and Johnny Crawford

Interviews conducted by Johnny Crawford and Adam Goodall

Starring Amy Griffin-Browne (Mothy), Harriet Hughes (28 Days: A Period Piece) and James Cain (Gift of the Gab)

ENDS

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