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Certainly the play boasts a gripping plot: it takes as its subject the true story of a young nun who became pregnant in her convent and whose baby was mysteriously strangled just after birth. But the script's forays into the realm of allegory place a heavy burden on its dramatic content. Agnes (Amanda Plummer), the nun on trial for the murder of her child, and her Mother Superior (Geraldine Page) together represent faith; Dr. Martha Livingstone (Lee Remick), the psychiatrist assigned by the court to the case, embodies reason. The problem with the play lies in its clumsy handling...
Page, a grande dame of the stage, shapes a Mother Superior who is at once completely convincing and utterly likeable. Pielmeler's firsthand experience of parochial schools obviously has served him well in one respect: he draws his nuns, if not his psychiatrists, clearly and beautifully. Intelligent, knowledgeable about the world outside the convent (she was married for over 20 years and bore two children). Mother Miriam holds to her faith more fiercely than a sheltered lifelong nun might. She believe she wants to believe not because she can conceive of no alternative...
Clare was like "a very understanding nun" to the "tongue-tied Oscar Wilde," as Sheed remembers himself. On one occasion the understanding nun reclined uneventfully on the Sheed bed. When the summer came to an end, she gave her young friend a new Oldsmobile...
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains K All for You. Christopher Durang's damnably funny satire on Roman Catholic education, faith and dogma. Elizabeth Franz is a holy terror as a schoolteacher-nun...
...midplay a second parody begins. Four of the nun's former students have come to perform a kind of Passion Play that had been staged by one of their classmates in their years at the school. The little troupe enacts the life of Christ from his birth in Bethlehem to his Crucifixion on Golgotha...