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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...
Solentiname was a traditional peasant community on an archipelago off the coast of Nicaragua. Poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal, who became Minister of Culture after the Sandinistas came to power, went to Solentiname to teach the peasants to read. A friend of Cardenal also began a poetry workshop, teaching the previously illiterate peasants to write their own poetry, Gullette said...
...throng of obnoxious vendors hawking baseball cards and t-shirts, there is a ragged-looking, old Irish priest who holds out a tamborine asking for spare change...
...political consciousness are much the same at both. Throughout its 21-year history under artistic director Gordon Davidson, the Taper has thrived on controversy. FBI agents, for example, sat alert at the opening of Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Catonsville Nine in 1970, hoping to nab the priest as an escaped felon. Currently the Taper is offering Nothing Sacred, an adaptation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons that hauntingly echoes U.S. political dialectics of the '60s, and Davidson is developing a script about the political resurgence of Fundamentalist Christianity...