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After Near-Death, God (+ Tolstoy, Dickens, Jefferson)

<p>After nearly dying from chronic asthma, veteran TV producer Scott Carter went on a journey of faith via playwrighting. Twenty-seven years later, after briefly leaving his work with host/comedian Bill Maher to help raise his daughters, Carter has brought the theological but fanciful work, "Discord," to the stage.</p><p>The play imagines Thomas Jefferson, Count Leo Tolstoy, and Charles Dickens in purgatory discussing the Bible, each of which these men<em> rewrote</em>.</p><p><a href="http://geffenplayhouse.com/more_info.php?show_id=206">http://geffenplayhouse.com/more_info.php?show_id=206</a></p><p> </p><p></p><div class="media media-element-container media-feature_small"><div id="file-76389" class="file file-image file-image-jpeg">

  
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