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Sam Singleton, Atheist Evangelist
Thursday Nov 19, 2009 8:00 PM
Patriarchs and Penises, a comedy in two acts.
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Sam Singleton, Atheist Evangelist | 8:00 PM
 SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 -- Sam Singleton Atheist Evangelist’s live performances draw a surpris-
ingly diverse audience--not only the expected “true nonbelievers” and “philosophical and theo-
logical types” but, a lot of people who just like to laugh, according to tour manager Cari Park.
The two-act show, which writer-actor Roger Scott Jackson describes as a theater piece rather than
a stand-up act, will be presented at the Rocket Club, 401 Haywood Rd., Thursday, November 19,
at 8 p.m.
Park describes the scene: “The stage is black and bare except for a pulpit, a small altar bench,
three rickety folding chairs, and a coat tree, all starkly white. Brother Sam, in his signature frock
coat, blue vest and matching spectacles, conducts the crowd through a hilarious and hair-raising
tour of his childhood among ‘the tongues-speaking, snake-handling, frothing-at-the-mouth holy
rollers,’ and subsequent ‘reversion to the atheistic state into which we all are born,’ before ending
Act I with a mercilessly satiric deconstruction of the role of God in American life.”
She notes that the second act has Brother Sam teaching a “biblically accurate but somewhat irrev-
erent “Bible class” in which Brother Sam satirically details the symbolic use of penises through-
out the Scriptures. “Nobody ever told me that what ties the whole book together, its narrative
thread, is penises,’ he says.
“Don’t look for Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris,” says Park. “This is comedy. From the subtlest
irony to the most ? agrant ridicule, it never fails at its purpose, which is to provoke both thought
and laughter. Like Brother Sam says, ‘If anybody can use some laughs and encouragement, it’s
atheists.’”
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