Sixty-Six Books
Sixty-Six Books was a set of plays premiered at the Bush Theatre in 2011, to mark the theatre's reopening on a new site and the 400th anniversary of the King James Version. It drew its title from the 66 books of the Bible. The special show from October 10-29, 2011, with special twenty-four hour shows on October 15 and 29; the production featured 130 actors, including Miranda Raison, Ralf Little, Billy Bragg, and Rafe Spall.
List of plays
| Book | Title | Author | Cast / notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genesis | Godblog | Jeanette Winterson | Catherine Tate |
| Exodus | The Crossing | Anne Michaels | |
| Leviticus | The Foundation | Caroline Bird | |
| Numbers | The Opening of the Mouth | Neil Bartlett | |
| Deuteronomy | The Rules | Maha Khan Philips | |
| Joshua | Sole Fide - By Faith Alone | Daisy Hasan | |
| Judges | Beardy | Tom Wells | |
| Ruth | The Book of Ruth (and Naomi) | Stella Duffy | Kate Duchêne and Nikki Amuka-Bird |
| 1 Samuel | David and Goliath | Andrew Motion | Malcolm Sinclair |
| 2 Samuel | Thus Spake Orunmila ... | Wole Soyinka | |
| 1 Kings | The Suleman | Roy Williams | |
| 2 Kings | Two Bears | Sam Burns | |
| 1 Chronicles | The Chronicle | Salena Godden | |
| 2 Chronicles | From Solomon to Cyrus the Great | Tim Rice | |
| Ezra | The Strange Wife | Naomi Foyle | |
| Nehemiah | When he had been loved ... | Mandla Langa | |
| Esther | Hadassah | Jackie Kay | |
| Job | In the Land of Uz | Neil LaBute | |
| Psalms | When We Praise | Kwame Kwei-Armah | |
| Proverbs | Notes for a Young Gentleman | Toby Litt | |
| Ecclesiastes | The Preacher, or How Ecclesiastes Changed My Life | Nancy Kricorian | |
| Song of Solomon | The Beauty of the Church | Carol Ann Duffy | |
| Isaiah | All the trees of the field | Ian McHugh | |
| Jeremiah | A Lost Expression | Luke Kennard | |
| Lamentations | Halter-Neck | Paul Muldoon | |
| Ezekiel | The Fair and Tender | Owen Sheers | |
| Daniel | Oliver Lewis | Jack Thorne | Miranda Raison and Dominic Mafham |
| Hosea | Fugitive Motel | Nick Payne | |
| Joel | I Notice the Sound First | Yemsi Blake | |
| Amos | Amos the Shepherd Curses the Rulers of Ancient Israel | Michael Rosen | |
| Obadiah | The House Next Door | Nancy Harris | |
| Jonah | Cetacean | Nick Laird | |
| Micah | Flare | Adam Foulds | |
| Nahum | God is Jealous | Moira Buffini | |
| Habakkuk | Habaccuc Dreams | Trevor Griffiths | |
| Zephaniah | In the night, a promise | Helen Edmundson | |
| Haggai | it is having fallen out of grace | Suheir Hammad | |
| Zechariah | The End of the Alphabet | Elinor Cook | |
| Malachi | When You Left I Thought I'd Die But Now I'm Fine | Molly Naylor | |
| Matthew | A Nobody | Laura Dockrill | |
| Mark | Capernaum | Steve Waters | |
| Luke | Do Unto Others | Billy Bragg | |
| John | Lazarus | Rowan Williams[1] | |
| Acts | Acts | Lachlan Mackinnon | |
| Romans | The Man Who Came to Brunch | Amy Rosenthal | |
| 1 Corinthians | Without Love | Matt Charman | |
| 2 Corinthians | The Wood Orchid | Wena Poon | |
| Galatians | The Transgressor | Deirdre Kinahan | |
| Ephesians | Ephesus-Schmephesus | Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran | |
| Philippians | The Loss of All Things | Chris Goode | |
| Colossians | Uncool Religion | Zukiswa Wanner | |
| 1 Thessalonians | Paul's First Voicemail to Thessa | D C Jackson | |
| 2 Thessalonians | Falling Away | Christopher Shinn | |
| 1 Timothy | Concerning Faith | David Edgar | |
| 2 Timothy | Hand-Me-Downs | James Graham | |
| Titus | A Sunday Sermon | Anya Reiss | |
| Philemon | The Letter | Kamila Shamsie | |
| Hebrews | The Middle Man | Anthony Weigh | Shaun Dingwall, Syrus Lowe |
| James | Salvation and Justification Reprised Anew | Brian Chikwava | |
| 1 Peter | Snow in Sheffield | Helen Mort | |
| 2 Peter | False Teachers | Suhayla El Bushra | |
| 1 John | Something, Someone, Somewhere | David Eldridge | |
| 2 John | Men in Verse | Nathalie Handal | |
| 3 John | Room 303 | Enda Walsh | |
| Epistle of Jude | The Goat at Midnight | Anne Carson | |
| Revelations | Endpapers | Kate Mosse |
References
- ↑ "Sixty-Six Books at the Bush, London | The Times". thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
External links
- "Sixty-Six Books | Bush Theatre". bushtheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
- https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Gx58S5sWMhsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:1849432988&hl=el&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiIhb6wnbjLAhVJSZoKHdPVALUQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
- "Sixty-Six Books | Bush Theatre a contemporary response to the King James bible bush theatre". oberonbooks.com. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
- "Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre, London, review - Telegraph". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
- "Sixty-Six Books – review | Stage | The Guardian". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
- "Theatre, dance, opera and cabaret reviews | The Stage". thestage.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
- "Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre | Theatre reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk". theartsdesk.com. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
- "Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre - review | Theatre | Going Out | London Evening Standard". standard.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
- "The British Theatre Guide: 21st-Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible". britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
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