God/Head

Synopsis

So there's this writer. Thirtysomething, gay, lefty metropolitan writer. Atheist, obviously. History of mental health problems, but those are all in the past. Sure of himself and his world view. Comfortable in his assumptions. And then one day, suddenly, without any warning... There's God. In this brand new documentary piece, award-winning writer and storyteller Chris Goode explores the flipside of the familiar crisis of faith: what if there really is a God after all? God/Head is a humane, candid, radically unsettling piece about the tensions between religion and neuroscience, and about the limits of language and the edges of desire.

Our Review:

Gill Kirk - 1 November 2012

Chris Goode has performed this show about twenty times and these are the last few nights of this interesting and extremely thoughtful piece.

Goode tells us that he has an historical relationship with depression. That when he once took medication, he felt at one with the world, indeed, with the universe. And that in April last year - and again this summer in Edinburgh - he felt blindingly certain that God was with him. That he was truly seen. The problem is, he doesn’t believe in God. What follows is some part of Goode’s exploration of his experience and his feelings about it, working each night with a different guest who provides a kind of “Parkinson”-cum-buddy to Goode’s exposed witness, here, Zoe Bouras.

Billed as “autobiographical documentary”, this is a truly fascinating show.[Goode’s trademark gentle manner and quest for transparency and truth are put right at the front and are themselves under the microscope. He shares the deeply personal while going (in his own...

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