‘A Case for the Existence of God’ Through Dec. 7 Mosaic Theater Company at Atlas Performing Arts Center 1333 H St,, N.E. Tickets: $42- $56 (discounts available) Mosaictheater.org

With each new work, Samuel D. Hunter has become more interested in “big ideas thriving in small containers.” Increasingly, he likes to write plays with very few characters and simple sets.

His 2022 two-person play, “A Case for the Existence of God,” (now running at Mosaic Theater Company) is one of these minimal pieces. “Audiences might come in expecting a theological debate set in the Vatican, but instead it’s two guys sitting in a cubicle discussing terms on a bank loan,” says Hunter (who goes by Sam).

Like many of his plays, this award-winning work unfolds in rural Idaho, where Hunter was raised. Two men, on

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