Sixty-Six Books

Sixty-Six Books was a set of plays premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2011, to mark the theatre's reopening on a new site and the 400th anniversary of the King James Version. It drew its title from the 66 books of the Protestant Bible. The special show ran from 10 October 10 to 29 October 2011, with special 24-hour shows on 15 and 29 October; the production featured 130 actors, including Miranda Raison, Ralf Little, Billy Bragg, and Rafe Spall.

List of plays

Book	Title	Author	Cast / notes
Genesis	Godblog	Jeanette Winterson	Catherine Tate
Exodus	The Crossing	Anne Michaels
Leviticus	The Foundation	Caroline Bird
Numbers	The Opening of the Mouth	Neil Bartlett
Deuteronomy	The Rules	Maha Khan Philips
Joshua	Sole Fide - By Faith Alone	Daisy Hasan
Judges	Beardy	Tom Wells
Ruth	The Book of Ruth (and Naomi)	Stella Duffy	Kate Duchêne and Nikki Amuka-Bird
1 Samuel	David and Goliath	Andrew Motion	Malcolm Sinclair
2 Samuel	Thus Spake Orunmila ...	Wole Soyinka
1 Kings	The Suleman	Roy Williams
2 Kings	Two Bears	Sam Burns
1 Chronicles	The Chronicle	Salena Godden
2 Chronicles	From Solomon to Cyrus the Great	Tim Rice
Ezra	The Strange Wife	Naomi Foyle
Nehemiah	When he had been loved ...	Mandla Langa
Esther	Hadassah	Jackie Kay
Job	In the Land of Uz	Neil LaBute
Psalms	When We Praise	Kwame Kwei-Armah
Proverbs	Notes for a Young Gentleman	Toby Litt
Ecclesiastes	The Preacher, or How Ecclesiastes Changed My Life	Nancy Kricorian
Song of Solomon	The Beauty of the Church	Carol Ann Duffy
Isaiah	All the trees of the field	Ian McHugh
Jeremiah	A Lost Expression	Luke Kennard
Lamentations	Halter-Neck	Paul Muldoon
Ezekiel	The Fair and Tender	Owen Sheers
Daniel	Oliver Lewis	Jack Thorne	Miranda Raison and Dominic Mafham
Hosea	Fugitive Motel	Nick Payne
Joel	I Notice the Sound First	Yemsi Blake
Amos	Amos the Shepherd Curses the Rulers of Ancient Israel	Michael Rosen
Obadiah	The House Next Door	Nancy Harris
Jonah	Cetacean	Nick Laird
Micah	Flare	Adam Foulds
Nahum	God is Jealous	Moira Buffini
Habakkuk	Habaccuc Dreams	Trevor Griffiths
Zephaniah	In the night, a promise	Helen Edmundson
Haggai	it is having fallen out of grace	Suheir Hammad
Zechariah	The End of the Alphabet	Elinor Cook
Malachi	When You Left I Thought I'd Die But Now I'm Fine	Molly Naylor
Matthew	A Nobody	Laura Dockrill
Mark	Capernaum	Steve Waters
Luke	Do Unto Others	Billy Bragg
John	Lazarus	Rowan Williams^[1]
Acts	Acts	Lachlan Mackinnon
Romans	The Man Who Came to Brunch	Amy Rosenthal
1 Corinthians	Without Love	Matt Charman
2 Corinthians	The Wood Orchid	Wena Poon
Galatians	The Transgressor	Deirdre Kinahan
Ephesians	Ephesus-Schmephesus	Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran
Philippians	The Loss of All Things	Chris Goode
Colossians	Uncool Religion	Zukiswa Wanner
1 Thessalonians	Paul's First Voicemail to Thessa	D C Jackson
2 Thessalonians	Falling Away	Christopher Shinn
1 Timothy	Concerning Faith	David Edgar
2 Timothy	Hand-Me-Downs	James Graham
Titus	A Sunday Sermon	Anya Reiss
Philemon	The Letter	Kamila Shamsie
Hebrews	The Middle Man	Anthony Weigh	Shaun Dingwall, Syrus Lowe
James	Salvation and Justification Reprised Anew	Brian Chikwava
1 Peter	Snow in Sheffield	Helen Mort
2 Peter	False Teachers	Suhayla El Bushra
1 John	Something, Someone, Somewhere	David Eldridge
2 John	Men in Verse	Nathalie Handal
3 John	Room 303	Enda Walsh
Epistle of Jude	The Goat at Midnight	Anne Carson
Revelations	Endpapers	Kate Mosse

References

^ "Sixty-Six Books at the Bush, London". The Times. Retrieved 2015-11-10.

External links

"Sixty-Six Books | Bush Theatre". bushtheatre.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
"Sixty-Six Books: 21st-century writers speak to the King James Bible: A Contemporary Response to the King James Bible", Oberon Books, 2012-05-02.
"Sixty-Six Books | Bush Theatre a contemporary response to the King James bible bush theatre". oberonbooks.com. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
"Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre, London, review - Telegraph". telegraph.co.uk. 17 October 2011. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
Billington, Michael (16 October 2011). "Sixty-Six Books – review | Stage | The Guardian". The Guardian. theguardian.com. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
"Theatre, dance, opera and cabaret reviews | The Stage". thestage.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
"Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre | Theatre reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk". theartsdesk.com. 17 October 2011. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
"Sixty-Six Books, Bush Theatre - review | Theatre | Going Out | London Evening Standard". standard.co.uk. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
"The British Theatre Guide: 21st-Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible". britishtheatreguide.info. Retrieved 2015-11-10.

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