Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir Perform 'Monsanto Is The Devil' in Wellesley

‘Monsanto is the Devil’ is a new family-friendly show from Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir. Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir are recipients of the OBIE Award, the Alpert Award for Theater, and the Glickman Award.

The performance is happening on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 8 p.m. at Babson College’s Sorenson Center for the Arts, 231 Forest St., Park Manor South, Wellesley.

The premise: In a May visit to Boston, the church invaded the Micro-robotics laboratory at Harvard, where scientists are designing the Robobee to replace the living honey bee. The evil idea of mechanical pollination and military drones based on the flight of insects - was addressed energetically by secular politicized gospel singing. Food from the pollination by the bees still surviving the recent ambush by Monsanto pesticides was offered to the scientists.

Among the witnesses was Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker, who featured the church in that magazine, as well as Aljazeera America and the Village Voice.

The “Monsanto is the Devil” performance will be staged at the Public Theater’s “Joe’s Pub” in New York City opening Sunday November 23. Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir will lead an organic thanksgiving dinner at Monsanto’s world headquarters this fall, after performing in Ferguson, Missouri.

Article submitted by Marnie Glickman