LAFPI

In the Beginning tells Eve’s – the first woman’s – untold Genesis story and her search for purpose in an already perfect world. Through cosmic family comedy, hand puppets, and heartfelt inquiry, the play explores the world’s first heroes under God’s infinite power and the human condition.

Eve is only mentioned twice by name in Genesis. Her story was never told. 

MATURE CONTENT AND TRIGGER WARNING  This play explores adult themes, nudity, language, sexual content, substance use and abuse, themes of suicide and self-harm, and mild violence.

STARRING:
Laurel Preston as EVE
Giorgio Rossini as ADAM
Landon Reid as GOD

In the beginning, God creates the perfect nursery for His children: the Garden. When He forms Eve, His masterpiece is finally complete, and all He has made is good.

As His children grow and learn from Him, Eve questions her Father, searching for a purpose beyond obedience. God tests Adam and Eve to make good choices, but promises they are perfect. Eve doesn’t understand how a bad choice can be part of God’s perfect plans, and deliberately disobeys one of her Father’s rules. God’s consequence sends Adam and Eve to live out in the Desert, to survive on their own with nothing but what their Father had taught them.

God’s perfect world now feels bad, and Father is nowhere to be seen or heard. Adam and Eve discover life’s firsts in marriage, sex, parenthood, grief, and death, and learn to lean on one another to survive.