Playing with Redemption is a documentary about the cast members who came to perform Terrence McNally's play, Corpus Christi, that was threatened religious fundamentalists when it came to Broadway a decade or so ago because of its religious content. The documentary traces how unchurched cast found spirituality and transformation in a story about homophobic violence and religious intolerance. Corpus Christi was written after the hate crime/murder of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming. McNally pens in the Preface to the play, "Jesus Christ did not die in vain because his disciples lived to spread the story. It is this generation's duty to make certain Matthew Shepard did not die in vain. We forgot the story at the peril of our very lives." And I would add "our souls." The documentary affirms a deeply profound and spiritual truth that love conquers hatred, even homohatred. This is a story for people spiritually and humanely who are committed to end hatred, violence, and children bullied for being LGBT.
