The Secret Book of Jesus

"I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old..."

PRAISE FOR THE SECRET BOOK OF JESUS

"Clearly one of the best writers in Minnesota."
-Dean Hatton, Marceau-trained mime

"...I’ve always loved that strange, obscure, folk-loric take on Jesus - stories that didn’t make the cut into the Canon we know as the Bible."
-Kay Kirscht, spoken-word artist

"...there’s a surprising fan-type of reverence here. And I’m not sure that phillip’s delivering what he believes cloaks greater truth, but he’s a messenger you’re pleased to welcome."
-Tom Cassidy, spoken-word artist

"This show IS for people who want to experience the wonder of the kind of storytelling that went on as the good news passed from person to person, village to village. These wonder tales were a cottage industry - and what were people to do with the structures of myth and fable once a new hierarchy of saints, angels and the Lord and Spirit walked among us but continue to express their own amazing imaginations in service to the sacred? Consider them the tall tales of the growing mind of the us, the Body of Christ. phillip should have an opportunity to make this more available simply because it shows the religion that became dogmatic and "correct" at its most human and horizontal - that is, relatable. All I could say at the end and edge of my seat was WOW! And Bravo!"
-audience review

ABOUT THE SHOW

Hidden in Egyptian tombs. Buried in earthenware jars. Traded in dark antiquities markets. For the first time in history, the Gospels suppressed or ignored by the early church have been combined to give a complete portrait of the life of Jesus: his parents' miraculous marriage; his bizarre killing sprees as an infant; his journey down into Hell; his apostles' interrogation of Satan.

A new face of Jesus, concealed for centuries, emerges at last: a dark child, tinged by holy madness, bearing strange powers, prone to deadly bursts of rage. A show for the faithful and heretic alike -- two thousand years in the making.