RAP GUIDE TO RELIGION Set For Soho Playhouse Return, 1/7

RAP GUIDE TO RELIGION is coming back to the Soho Playhouse!

Hit performance piece RAP GUIDE TO RELIGION by Baba Brinkman is set to return to the Soho Playhouse for an open-ended run this week.

The official description of Baba Brinkman's RAP GUIDE TO RELIGION is as follows: "After a successful five-star-rated run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and a two month run with the 2014 Edinburgh Encore series at SoHo Playhouse, the theater's Artistic Director, Darren Lee Cole, is proud to announce the extension of Rap Guide to Religion beginning Wednesday, January 7, 2015. The fourth off-Broadway show written by and starring Drama Desk Award-nominee Baba Brinkman, Rap Guide to Religion is a seventy-five-minute, peer-reviewed rap scripture about the science of religion, from tribal animism to Islam to Justin Bieber thanking god at the MTV Teen Choice Awards. The result is one third rap concert, one third comedy, and one third TED talk, adding up to a whole new species of off-Broadway theater. Rap Guide to Religion takes you on an uplifting intellectual odyssey, seeking to heal religious conflicts with a better understanding of their common evolutionary origins. Instead of condemning people for their beliefs, Brinkman is more interested in how those beliefs are shaped to serve the needs of believers as they interact with their environments. Using hip-hop culture as a model, Baba looks at the patterns of transformation in cultural evolution; tracing factors such as repetition, popular endorsement, source prestige, costly investment, etc, each of which increases the chance of an idea or meme spreading. This is the key to understanding trends in hip-hop culture and also trends in the spread of religion. Brinkman also explores the almost godlike status accorded to some rappers, and the techniques they use to whip the crowd into an ecstatic hands-in-the-air frenzy. Clearly rap and religion have much in common."

More information on RAP GUIDE TO RELIGION is available at the official site here.

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