After well-received runs in Santa Rosa and Sebastopol, North Bay writer and performer David Templeton is taking his “one-sinner show” south to Marin County.

“Wretch Like Me,” Templeton’s autobiographical tale of religious zealotry opens Jan. 20 at the  142 Throckmorton Theatre, located (logically enough) at 142 Throckmorton Ave. in Mill Valley.

The original solo performance piece relates the author’s misadventures as a teenage born-again fundamentalist in the 1970s. The wild ride includes a charismatic preacher on hallucinogens, and a near-drowning by baptism.

Show times: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 20 and 27, and Feb. 3. Admission: $15-$18. Information: (415) 383-9600, www.142ThrockmortonTheatre.org.

It’s worth it just to hear Templeton recite “Amazing Grace” backwards:

“Me like wretch a saved that sound the sweet how grace amazing. See I now but blind was, found am I now but lost was once I.”

(“It sounds like something Yoda would say,” Templeton quipped recently.)