Merrilee Bufkin
Games
💾 | ✏️ | The First Baptist Church’s Ladies Prayer Group Meeting, September 23rd, 1998 | Golden Cobra Challenge (2023) |
Awards
Golden Cobra Challenge (2023)
The First Baptist Church’s Ladies Prayer Group Meeting, September 23rd, 1998: Winner, Game That Made Us Laugh the Most
Merrilee Bufkin's complex and hilarious (and semi-autobiographical) look at the wild interpersonal dynamics among Southern Baptist women of a certain age, is a lovely example of recontextualizing and building on an earlier game (in this case, Tasha Robinson's The Regency Committee on Decorum and Punchbowl Poop Prevention). Something deeply weird has happened in the community and it's up to the ladies prayer group to sort it out, amid religious rivalry, grim rhetorical combat and, no doubt, plenty of bless-your-hearts. You'll laugh, you'll fake cry, you'll flip the snack table. Funny for sure, but also heart-felt and smart.
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