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...face of Mother Teresa on your cover said it all. It revealed that what she wrote about the darkness in her soul for almost 50 years was the truth. Thank you for showing us the outstanding portrait of that much admired, mysterious nun. It seems as though the sadness of the whole world was mirrored in those eyes. Father Albert Herold, Order of Saint Benedict, Mtunzini, South Africa
...greatest strengths. Tom Prendeville, DUBLIN The face of Mother Teresa on your cover said it all. It revealed that what she wrote about the darkness in her soul for almost 50 years was the truth. Thank you for showing us the outstanding portrait of that much admired, mysterious nun. It seems as though the sadness of the whole world was mirrored in those eyes. Father Albert Herold, Order of Saint Benedict Mtunzini, SOUTH AFRICA...
...face of Mother Teresa on your cover said it all. It revealed that what she wrote about the darkness in her soul for almost 50 years was the truth. Thank you for giving us the outstanding portrait of that much admired, mysterious nun. The sadness of the whole world seemed mirrored in those eyes. Father Albert Herold, Order of Saint Benedict, Mtunzini, South Africa...
...About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-winning film of 1999, identity is not a stable character trait. A nurse becomes a prostitute, a nun becomes pregnant, a prostitute becomes a saint and several men become women. The much-anticipated stage adaptation of the film, now playing at the Old Vic Theatre in London until Nov. 24, doesn't settle on a single form either. Containing a film sequence and several plays-within-the-play, it is, like its transgender characters, a type of crossover - a trans-genre. What it wants to say through its densely layered metadrama...
...compelled by the sudden death of her teenage son to travel to Barcelona in search of his drug-addled, HIV-positive transvestite father, who now goes by the name Lola. He is elusive, but she finds Agrado, a transvestite prostitute he robbed and abandoned, and Sister Rosa, a local nun he impregnated and infected. Manuela begins mothering them both, and also befriends Huma, an aging lesbian stage diva performing in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The quartet form a bizarre postmodern family that shares pain and solace alike...