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Losing My Religion: Confessions of a New Age Refugee

Losing My Religion: Confessions of a New Age Refugee highlights the absurdities, paradoxes, and heartfelt qualities of having any kind of spiritual leaning. The audience is escorted through an earnest, sidesplitting depiction of the trials and tribulations of losing and finding one's spiritual path.

Lepore uses his fecund imagination to take a humorous and sincere look at the pitfalls and biases that make up the melting pot of spiritual choices. The intention of the piece is to create an ongoing dialogue that presents more questions than answers in terms of how we approach faith as a culture.

The one-man show "is a humorous, ironic and sardonic look at the blurry line between self-help and faith. Based on his own spiritual journey, which saw him leave the Catholic Church as a teenager and meander through Buddhism and a host of other isms, the monologue juxtaposes wickedly funny and insightful characterizations of the people he has met along the way with thoughtful commentary on [Lepore's] own spiritual seeking.

Lepore comes across a lone, common-man hero. Possessing a rubber-faced ability to slide cleanly into character and deadly accurate powers of observation, Lepore's acting is worth the price of admission alone.

Carefully chosen words make the satire wicked and the comedy rapier-sharp. His humor comes on many levels -- sometimes over-the-top, often much more subtle -- and that makes an evening rise above stand-up comedy to something closer to social commentary." Jon Potter, Brattleboro Reformer

Written and Performed by Seth Lepore. Directed by Thomas Griffin.