About this project
A tent. A preacher. A sermon extolling the glories of voyeurism and the perils of playing with gasoline. The Word is the Truth, with sex, drugs, and chili.
Brian Osborne is performing his hallucinatory pseudo-religious riff on the life of a well known, but unnamed, child-evangelist in a special 4 show Los Angeles engagement.
The WORD: A House Party for Jesus is a non-stop, mile-a-minute solo theatre piece created and performed by Brian Osborne and directed by co-conspirator Whit MacLaughlin of New Paradise Laboratories. In THE WORD, performer Osborne creates a silver-tongued, jive-talking magic man—a spiritual alchemist—who transforms human frailty into a mind-bending and hilarious meditation on one man’s place in a topsy-turvy universe.
THE WORD is a back-yard, house party for Jesus. A stand-up comedy routine with an eloquent, soul-searching heart. A profane reflection on cosmic themes. A stream-of-consciousness rant set to rave-up dance music.
THE WORD has been playing in backyards, empty warehouses, vacant lots, shitholes, and sites of ill-repute throughout the east coast. The Los Angeles encampment takes place in two of the most elegant and anonymous backyards on the west coast and follows a run in NY, and Philadelphia and precedes engagements in Austin, TX and Pittsburgh, PA.
THE WORD is not fiction. Osborne believes every word he speaks. He dispenses total truth, without artifice or guile.
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This project successfully raised its funding goal on February 22, 2011.
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BRIAN OSBORNE is collaborative theater artist who makes highly interactive physical comedies inspired by real people. His work has been produced in New York by David Binder (Delicious Vaudeville) and in Philadelphia at The Live Arts Festival and NET Micro Festival (The Word). He is the Artistic Director of The Elastic Theater, for which has created and performed in 5 original works. Other recent collaborations include Thaddeus Phillips/Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental's WHALE OPTICS, Kate Watson Wallace's STORE and CAR, Pig Iron Theater Company’s THE LINCOLN PROJECT, and WIND-UP at Princeton's Atelier. Brian is a founding member of New York’s Cliplight Theater, for which he has appeared in 6 original productions. OFF BROADWAY he performed in the aerial smash hit DE LA GUARDA. Film & TV: SOPHOMORE (forthcoming), LAW & ORDER: SVU, DRIVERS WANTED, THREADBARE, SURE SHOT, and Harold Pinter's APPLICANT. He studied Theater at Marquette University, has trained with Alfred Molina, Ada Brown Mather (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), and Second City. He studied playwriting with Alvin Eng and received the 2007 Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Award for the development and production of THE WORD.
