Swamped

"I wonder who wrote that. Were they devout? Or perhaps one of the churches sponsored the show?"

You're not that interested in it, but you think you can use the subject to lead things a little.

"The churches here never cared much about the theater one way or the other. Outside of some of the grebling actors catching some kind of trouble with the Church of Reth... not any official sort of trouble, but the kind where they very pointedly have as little to do with you as possible." They take another bite. "Don't know much about that business, myself. Not a grebling, after all."

"Well, it sounds like a good show for a believer, at least," you say calmly. "Can't recall seeing one that puts the gods front and center too often. Don't suppose the shows these performers do are at all decent in that regard?"

They put down their sandwich. It seems they're actually struggling with the question.

"Now, maybe this is just the sloppy writing, and I did only see the one performance so maybe it's different most of the time," they say after a pause. "But there was one scene about the gods. It seemed basically respectful, if a bit tacked-on. Just the main character realizing all the harm he'd done, and begging them for forgiveness. And they were telling him back, you've got one more chance, don't mess it up, pretty much. Could have been moving if they'd put more work into the dialogue, even if, again, it feels like more than they care about most people."

They pick up their sandwich again and finish it off. When they're done chewing they continue.

"But there was one thing about the scene that was weird. Really weird. I was pretty bored at the time, so I didn't think about it much, but now it's really striking me how strange it was."