OnStage Playhouse's 'Harvest' a dark look at blind faith and evangelism

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The 2017 play by Samuel D. Hunter opens the Chula Vista theater's 40th anniversary season

In Samuel D. Hunter's play 'The Harvest,' a group of young Idaho evangelicals are in the final 72-hour countdown for their months-long missionary trip to the Middle East. So when the play begins in the shabby basement of a church, the prayers the missionaries are reciting in a rising cacophony of noise sound, at first, like they're in Arabic.

Marcel Ferrin, a fast-rising, instinctive San Diego actor who has performed with Backyard Renaissance, Moxie and Loud Fridge theater companies over the past 2 years, leads the cast. He plays Josh, a fragile young man whose faith has become so shaken, he's contemplating a one-way trip to the Middle East, where he might be lucky enough to die a martyr.

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