What Jefferson, Dickens And Tolstoy Can Teach Us About Exploring The Big Questions
The Huffington Post‘s Jaweed Kaleem reviews “The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord,” which opened this week at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. The play imagines that the three historical figures, who all wrote their own renditions of the Christian Bible during their lives, join together in an attempt to write the perfect Gospel. Scott Carter, the play’s author and a former writer for Bill Maher, wants audiences to understand that “One does not have to accept all of a given doctrine. One can negotiate with his own conscience what one actually accepts.”