Reflections on Mark Archives - I AM MARK https://iam-mark.com/category/reflections-on-mark A daring new staging of Mark's Gospel Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:32:26 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/iam-mark.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Logo-v2.2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Reflections on Mark Archives - I AM MARK https://iam-mark.com/category/reflections-on-mark 32 32 186821261 An interview with Lisa Gilmour: Rehearsing Open Heaven https://iam-mark.com/an-interview-with-lisa-gilmour-rehearsing-open-heaven https://iam-mark.com/an-interview-with-lisa-gilmour-rehearsing-open-heaven#respond Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:31:09 +0000 https://iam-mark.com/?p=11905 Stefan’s brand new production, Open Heaven, is a word-for-word solo dramatisation of Acts 1–12. Rehearsals have been busily underway ahead of the premiere in November 2026. We spoke to Open Heaven’s Director, Lisa Gilmour – who also directed I AM MARK – who gave us this moving account of how the rehearsals are shaping up ahead of the … Continue reading An interview with Lisa Gilmour: Rehearsing Open Heaven

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]]> https://iam-mark.com/an-interview-with-lisa-gilmour-rehearsing-open-heaven/feed 0 11905 I AM NOT MARK https://iam-mark.com/question-mark-1 https://iam-mark.com/question-mark-1#respond Fri, 26 Jul 2019 15:37:37 +0000 http://iam-mark.com/2019/07/26/question-mark-1/ I AM NOT MARK 1. Why did you call your play I AM MARK? Three reasons: First, because Mark is the narrator of this gospel and his story is based on an eyewitness account of real events. Second, because, in an oral culture, it’s pretty likely that Mark and his friends went around performing this … Continue reading I AM NOT MARK

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]]> https://iam-mark.com/question-mark-1/feed 0 611 7 Tips to Keep Yourself Motivated https://iam-mark.com/i-am-mark-the-back-story https://iam-mark.com/i-am-mark-the-back-story#respond Fri, 19 Jul 2019 11:11:37 +0000 http://iam-mark.com/2019/07/19/i-am-mark-the-back-story/ 7 Tips to Keep Yourself Motivated Getting to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is not a synch. In fact it’s the most demanding thing I’ve ever done, as well as bring the most exciting. Every day I’m faced with a new challenge, something I’ve never had to do before – especially when it comes … Continue reading 7 Tips to Keep Yourself Motivated

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]]> https://iam-mark.com/i-am-mark-the-back-story/feed 0 604 I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief! https://iam-mark.com/i-do-believe-help-me-overcome-my-unbelief https://iam-mark.com/i-do-believe-help-me-overcome-my-unbelief#respond Sun, 30 Jun 2019 09:40:19 +0000 http://iam-mark.com/2019/06/30/i-do-believe-help-me-overcome-my-unbelief/ I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT when God does something, however big or small, in the ordinary events of life and out of pure love for you or others? I mean, really believe it? I was faced with just this question yesterday in my latest theatrical adventure, presenting Mark’s … Continue reading I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!

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]]> https://iam-mark.com/i-do-believe-help-me-overcome-my-unbelief/feed 0 590 ‘They found things just as Jesus told them.’ (Mark 14:16) https://iam-mark.com/they-found-things-just-as-jesus-told-them-mark-1416 https://iam-mark.com/they-found-things-just-as-jesus-told-them-mark-1416#respond Wed, 29 May 2019 01:30:00 +0000 http://iam-mark.com/2019/05/29/they-found-things-just-as-jesus-told-them-mark-1416/ ‘They found things just as Jesus told them.’ (Mark 14:16) Curious passage, this. (Check it out in Mark 14: 12-16). Jesus giving precise orders to two of his disciples as to where to make preparations for them all to eat the Passover. “Follow this man carrying a jar of water (in those days only women … Continue reading ‘They found things just as Jesus told them.’ (Mark 14:16)

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]]> https://iam-mark.com/they-found-things-just-as-jesus-told-them-mark-1416/feed 0 549 Today’s Lesson: How to Play Jesus https://iam-mark.com/how-to-play-jesus https://iam-mark.com/how-to-play-jesus#respond Mon, 27 May 2019 05:30:12 +0000 http://iam-mark.com/2019/05/27/how-to-play-jesus/ Today’s Lesson: How to Play Jesus The way to engage a crowd as Jesus did is to love each member of it, individually and unconditionally – with the offer of complete forgiveness for those who can’t handle that. Even if one of them throws a bottle of Fanta ‘on stage’ mid-crucifixion and then scurries off … Continue reading Today’s Lesson: How to Play Jesus

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]]> https://iam-mark.com/how-to-play-jesus/feed 0 547 It Starts With a Chair… https://iam-mark.com/it-starts-with-a-chair https://iam-mark.com/it-starts-with-a-chair#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2019 07:16:21 +0000 http://iam-mark.com/2019/04/24/it-starts-with-a-chair/ It Starts With a Chair… I LOVE MY CHAIR. If you’ve not seen it in performance, it’s red and teak and beautifully crafted in an ordinary-kitchen-chair-no one-would-stop-and-gawp-at sort of way. But it’s very much the Spring Behind the Action, becoming by turns: a cornfield, a ship, a tomb, a tree, an execution site, an instrument … Continue reading It Starts With a Chair…

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]]> https://iam-mark.com/it-starts-with-a-chair/feed 0 447 IS THIS LOVE? https://iam-mark.com/is-this-love https://iam-mark.com/is-this-love#respond Wed, 03 Apr 2019 10:58:25 +0000 http://iam-mark.com/2019/04/03/is-this-love/ IS THIS LOVE? Did Judas love Jesus? Rehearsing his last words to him in the Garden of Gethsemane, I sense that his greeting would at least seem to be one of deep respect and affection. He might even wait for Jesus to take his outstretched arms before planting the kisses on him that seal his … Continue reading IS THIS LOVE?

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]]> https://iam-mark.com/is-this-love/feed 0 378 My Timing or Yours? https://iam-mark.com/my-timing-or-yours https://iam-mark.com/my-timing-or-yours#respond Tue, 27 Nov 2018 17:33:47 +0000 http://iam-mark.com/?p=304 My Timing or Yours? Just waiting around…guess this is what actors do. Chomping on the bit. So much promise of people to meet and performances to set up. Plans to put into place; conversations to set the ball rolling. But nothing’s happening – at least not right now. I start losing hope. End up thinking … Continue reading My Timing or Yours?

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