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...14th century France, when the Black Plague was turning Europe into a mass graveyard, Noses tells the story of one Father Flote, a priest with revolutionary ideas about the role of religion in people's lives. Flote, played with amazing grace by Michael Starr, rebels against the penitents and clergy who argue that the plague is God's punishment for humanity's sins. The only way to save the world, say the penitents, is through pain--self-inflicted or otherwise...
...Flote, however, takes a more benevolent view. He believes that religion should make people's lives easier, not harder, and proposes to bring mirth to the suffering masses. The priest forms Christ's Clowns--the play takes its name from the red noses they don--and sets off on his humorous crusade...
STARR plays Flote as a religious fanatic with simple faith. Though Starr has difficulty when it comes to singing, at other times his voice is appropriately tremulous and sincere...
...Flote vies with the penitents for the benediction of the Church, personified by the Archbishop Monselet (Panayotis Agapitos), who ultimately favors Flote to spite his grave assistant, Father Toulon (Stefan Howells). Monselet is a purple-clad fop whose sole concern is for his own safety, and Agapitos' performance is as biting as it is hysterical...
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