Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption

“Challenge everything you believe.”

Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi is a play retelling the Jesus story, with Jesus as a gay man living in the 1950s in Corpus Christi, Texas. This documentary follows the troupe, playwright, and audience around the world on a five-year journey of Terrence McNally’s passion play, where voices of protest and support collide on one of the central issues facing the LGBT community: religion.

Screenplay

James Brandon

Director

James Brandon

Screenplay

Nic Arnzen

Director

Nic Arnzen

Status

Released

Release date

10/11/2013

Original language

English