and thou shalt be healed is the next new play reading for our 2025 OTR New Works Staged Reading Series, and we hopped on Zoom with 2025 Resident Playwright Benjamin Benne to discuss his play.
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ABOUT THE SHOW
Siblings Mary and Johnny were raised in the same Christian cult. Now in their 40s, the still religious Mary is having a crisis of faith and is in need of a miracle. Her now secular brother offers a controversial solution. When reunited on a remote mountain in New Mexico, surrounded by energy vortexes, rumors of aliens, and a golden eyelash palm pit viper named Daisy, they wonder: Did they ever know the same God?
FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT
I wrote this play at a time when I–and so many around me–were asking questions about our relationship to faith and spirituality. The play is an attempt to explore the balance between our search for answers and certainty with an acceptance/embrace of mystery, the inexplicable, the ineffable. For those who have seen my work at Chance Theater, you’ve now seen an older play of mine (at the very bottom of a body of water), a more recent play of mine (Alma), and now you’ll get to see one of my newest works with and thou shalt be healed.
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