Word: agnese
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Agnes of God, just opened on Broadway, begins with a grisly anecdote: a young nun gives birth in her convent, strangles the infant and stuffs it in a wastebasket. From this tabloid tale, John Pielmeier has fashioned a mystery play about an enduring theological riddle: the virgin birth. Who sired...
The play is an essay on the artistocracy of the insane: Whom the gods wish to embrace, they first drive mad. Agnes is a strange young woman, singing in an Angelus-clear soprano and obey voices no one can hear. It remains for Martha and Miriam to translate these sounds...
But if Pielmeier flunks his metaphysical, he gives his players every chance for a sublime, exhausting workout onstage. Forget Equus; think of The Exorcist. Watch Plummer as she scales the sloping back wall of Eugene Lee's set, as blood gushes from the stigmata in her palms, as she...
Louisville may have been slightly victimized by past successes. The Pulitzer-prizewinning Crimes of the Heart (currently on Broadway) originated at the festival, as did Getting Out, My Sister in This House, Agnes of God, and The Gin Game, all of which went on to New York and to other...
In terms of its ability to involve and to entertain Agnes of God deserves unstinting praise. The production is clean, neat and generally falls disappointingly short of its mark. Its full throated advocacy of faith and its lack of respect for ambiguity doom it to failure as a drama of...