A Walless Church

by AriDy Nox

A Walless Church: The Black Women’s Guide To Creating God is a Living Room play/ritual/lecture where three godlings give insight into how one creates the divine. Oru, Nona, and Mo interweave between narrator and protagonist and teacher and student and priestess and witness and god and God recklessly. Oru, the seasoned expert, navigates every twist with aplomb. Nona, the perfectionist, bristles at every...

A Walless Church: The Black Women’s Guide To Creating God is a Living Room play/ritual/lecture where three godlings give insight into how one creates the divine. Oru, Nona, and Mo interweave between narrator and protagonist and teacher and student and priestess and witness and god and God recklessly. Oru, the seasoned expert, navigates every twist with aplomb. Nona, the perfectionist, bristles at every compromise. And Mo, the newbie, revels in the experience even as she struggles not to be overcome with self-doubt. When things go wrong (as they inevitably must) they go very wrong: Spirits become stickier than they should be, walls between the worlds grow thin and love between black women grows sour, souring the godlings recipe. While Oru, Nona, and Mo struggle to create a God worthy of Creation, they also struggle with the various black women they haphazardly embody, all of whom are struggling to see the God within themselves. But our godlings are persistent and they refuse to fail. At least, not without a fight.

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  • Andrew Rosendorf: A Walless Church

    What a beautiful play that wraps you up in its theatricality, language, story, ritual, and heart. With some surprises along the way as the play welcomes us to observe -- until it asks more of us. If you don't know this play or AriDy's work, you should.

    What a beautiful play that wraps you up in its theatricality, language, story, ritual, and heart. With some surprises along the way as the play welcomes us to observe -- until it asks more of us. If you don't know this play or AriDy's work, you should.

  • Shaun Leisher: A Walless Church

    Really loved how magical this play is. A gift for designers, directors and actors.

    Really loved how magical this play is. A gift for designers, directors and actors.

  • Gina Femia: A Walless Church

    I loved this play - the theatricality, the ritual, dialogue, the characters and the heart. Produce it!

    I loved this play - the theatricality, the ritual, dialogue, the characters and the heart. Produce it!