Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simple-minded observation, but one that must not be forgotten, is that Poland is a Communist country. And Joan of the Angels can be seen as a very simple political allegory...
...Mother Joan, the nun possessed by eight devils, is the symbol of Poland, the Polish soul, the Polish intellectual. Her surging passion is the stuff that Poles think life is made of ("We drink hard - live hard - play hard," they will tell a foreigner). But when this passion is forced into the unnatural constraint of a nunnery, an artificially "angelic" costume, it becomes crazed and anarchic...
...priests, who seek to exorcise the demons, represent the Polish communists, at once dogmatic and anti-humanistic. In her greatest moment, Mother Joan screams at the priest that she likes her demons; that she will not be made just like thousands of others, who pray to gods all together, who eat their beans every day. This is precisely the plea of Poland, afraid that it is being engulfed by the faceless hordes of the East. Poles frequently identify the mass nature of the Russian Orthodox Church with the mass nature of Soviet communism...
...learned, "is by playing role after role after role, and not in two-year runs. Repertory theater is great for actors because they're allowed to fail. I should have the chance to fail atrociously as Lady Macbeth right now. Then maybe I could do St. Joan...
Stephanie Krebe '65, of Gilman House and Newton, has been elected president of RGA. Other officers are Anne J. d'Harnoncourt '65, of Holmes Hall and New York City, vice-president; Joan C. Martin '66, of Bellaire, Texas, and Moors Hall, secretary; and Beverly Winikoff '66, of Comstock Hall and New York, treasurer...