Revews: Comedy: ORIGINAL SIN: GOD'S POTTERY SAVES THE WORLD: Theatre: FOR GOD'S SAKE!: CA dollars H IN CHRIST!: LEAVE A MESSAGE: BIGGER THAN JESUS The God profusion It's a sign of the fraught political climate that religion, until recently all but invisible, is now almost uncannily omnipresent on the Fringe

From: The Scotsman | Date: August 14, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

ORIGINAL SIN ***

THE GREEN ROOM (VENUE 274)

GOD'S POTTERY SAVES THE WORLD ***

PLEASANCE COURTYARD (VENUE 33)

FOR GOD'S SAKE! **

UNDERSTAIRS @ ROYAL SCOTS CLUB (VENUE 241)

CASH IN CHRIST! ***

ASSEMBLY@HILL STREET THEATRE (VENUE 41)

LEAVE A MESSAGE ***

VENUE 45 (VENUE 45)

BIGGER THAN JESUS

ASSEMBLY@ST GEORGE'S WEST (VENUE 157)

GO BACK 15 years and you'd have been hard pushed to find God on the Fringe. But world events have changed all that. Last year, you couldn't move for people pretending to be Jesus. And this year there is another glorious cornucopia of companies exploring, questioning ...

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