FILM, DRAMA and SPOKEN WORD


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FILM

TREMBLING BEFORE G-D £6.30 (£4.70)
Wednesday 6 August, 6pm at Edinburgh Filmhouse, Lothian Rd
Trembling Before G-d is an unprecedented feature documentary that shatters assumptions about faith, sexuality, and religious fundamentalism. The film portrays a group of people who face a profound dilemma - how to reconcile their passionate love of Judaism and the Divine with the drastic Biblical prohibitions that forbid homosexuality. We meet a range of complex individuals from the world's first openly gay Orthodox Rabbi to closeted, married Hasidic gays and lesbians to those abandoned by religious families to Orthodox lesbian high-school sweethearts.

Many have been tragically rejected and their pain is raw, yet with irony, humor, and resilience, they love, care, struggle, and debate with a thousands-year old tradition. Ultimately, they are forced to question how they can pursue truth and faith in their lives. For the first time, this issue has become a live, public debate in Orthodox circles, and the film is both witness and catalyst to this historic moment. What emerges is a loving and fearless testament to faith and survival and the universal struggle to belong.

There will be a 30 minute Q&A afterwards with Bishop Gene Robinson, Rabbi Lionel Blue and Dr Christian Lange (lecturer in Islamic Studies). 


PEACE OF THE ACTION  -  FREE 
Fridays, 2.30pm – 3pm in chapel at St John’s (venue 127)
Short community films about ordinary people making a difference to our shared life on earth 

Friday 8 August: CND March to Aldermaston 1958 
Friday 15 August: Camcorder Guerrillas’ Deadly Cargo – Nuclear Convoy
(Karine Polwart soundtrack)
Friday 22 August: Stars of Bethlehem 2005, Diaries Through The Wall (38 words) 

In association with the Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre www.peaceandjustice.org.uk  
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DRAMA

Northern International Theatre present 
THE BURMA PLAY – A COMEDY OF TERROR £8 (£5) 
Monday 4 – Sunday 10 August, 4pm – 5pm at St John’s (venue 127) 
The Cooperative Bank, Amnesty International, UNISON and BEST present dark humour and virtuoso performances bringing Burma’s political nightmare up to date. ’ A vital glimpse of the Burmese people’s courage and suffering’ (John Pilger). All profits to BEST (Burma Educational Scholarship Trust www.burma-trust.org  


The Whitewash Players present 
LIFE IS - £8 (£6)
Monday 11 – Saturday 16 August, 4pm – 5pm at St John’s (venue 127)
New play: where does ‘love’ begin/end? Does it? Love, instinct, hate, survival – life! Who defines ‘life’? We love, we die… What’s left behind? Two couples ‘in love’. What could matter more?   World Premier

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STORYTELLING

TELL ME THE STORY
Sunday 24 August, 1pm at St John’s (venue 127)
Edinburgh storyteller and author, Alex MacDonald, will retell one of the eyewitness accounts of people who actually met Jesus.

“A lively and original style” (Life and Work)

“[The stories] magically take us to the lands and times in which they happened” (Manuel Reaño, Columbia)