Studio Theatre’s “When Prophecy Fails” Explores 1950s Doomsday Cult Dynamics

When Prophecy Fails review – gripping dive into a doomsday cult

Studio theatre, Edinburgh Groupwork’s physical theatre show captures the real story of a midwest mystic from the 50s and the followers she drew, in all their eerie ordinariness In the early 1950s in the American midwest, a woman known by the alias of Marian Keech awoke in the night with the urge to write. But the words that came out weren’t her own: it was the voice of her late father, she was sure. Other voices from the beyond began to use Marian as a conduit, ultimately Jesus Christ himsel...

By Lyndsey Winship