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Rev. is the story of an Anglican priest who is uprooted from a sleepy parish in the English Countryside and plopped down in the socially disunited East London parish of St. Saviour. Faced with he impossibility of balancing his unenthusiastic wife, a fame seeking archdeacon, a socially awkward associate pastor, drug addicts and an\u00a0amorous\u00a0cassock-chasers, Adam \u2013 played by Tom Hollander \u2013 bumbles hilariously from on debacle to another in what is one of the funniest plays on ministry life I\u2019ve ever seen.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a quick scene where Adam greets one of his\u00a0parishioners at the vicarage door:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_pAYIsb0Xw?version=3<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"