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AGNES OF GOD by John Pielmeier
What follows is almost a rerun of Equus. Like the psychiatrist in Equus, who examined the deranged boy who blinded horses, Dr. Livingstone quizzes Agnes only to receive similar rebuffs and elusively Delphic answers. Like the psychiatrist in Equus, who was forced to question his reasoned image of civilization vs...
The dead body of an infant strangled by its umbilical cord has been found in a wastebasket. The wastebasket belongs to Agnes (Mia Dillon), a nun of a contemplative order. There is no reason to doubt that Agnes gave birth to the child in her room and then murdered it...
A court-appointed psychiatrist, Dr Martha Livingstone (Adale O'Brien), arrives at the convent to question Agnes in order to ascertain her mental state and to find out who impregnated her. A third party, Mother Superior Miriam Ruth, acts as a buffer between the two. Mother Miriam (Anne Pitoniak...
When West Side Story opened on Broadway almost 23 years ago, it was greeted as a revolutionary show. Its subject, New York street gangs, was far more adventurous than the typical fluff of musicals; its language was tough and its ending downbeat. This month, when West Side returned in a...