The Eno River Players announce the world premiere of Twelve Minor Prophets, a new play by Charlie Mayhew and Leo Egger. Based on the Book of the Twelve from the Bible, the show is a freewheeling revue of early Jewish history that begs the question: is God really finished with us?

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After the death of his father, Jesse has the same dream about him every night: he holds up a blank book and points to an audience. Jesse thinks he knows what it means.

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He's gathered some actor friends to help him stage the twelve minor prophets—Jonah, Hosea, Amos, and nine others whose names you can't remember—the angry, repetitive, often impossible-to-parse books of the Bible his father spent years trying to understand. They'll perform them in different genres: a Western, a teen drama, a musical. His sister, Abby, will provide historical context. It'll be fun. Redemptive. A way to say goodbye.

It doesn't go as planned.

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The prophets won't cooperate. Neither will Abby, who has secretly hired a prophet of her own to ease her brother's grief. And the production starts to unravel in ways Jesse didn't see coming. The prophets wrote about catastrophe and exile and God's love and God's wrath, often in the same breath. Jesse's trying to make sense of that while also trying not to fall apart in front of an audience. These goals turn out to be related.