Word: priestly
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...Carol Jackson as Balladier leads a song about freedom and deliverance from oppression but it is too drawn out. Her strong voice poignantly raises the three victims to the level of martyrdom. And Jackson effectively opens the second act singing a ballad about them. Appearances of a priest (David Jackson) and a reporter (Pat Marren) add even more dimensions of religion and comercialization...
...company's century-long rule has combined with the constant wind and rain to keep the Falklands in a state that a local Anglican priest has called "positively feudal." To some, this all seems a charming escape from the stresses and conflicts of the outside world. People born on the island proudly call themselves "kelpers," for the seaweed that grows thickly offshore. Visitors relish the fact that the milkman arrives at the door with his cow and then produces just enough milk to fill a bottle. Or that the big social event of the year is a week-long series...
Jesus was effeminate, but not Jewish. St. Ignatius smoked Camels, which he stubbed out on the soles of his feet. The collection plate passed after the priest's sermon is like God's Nielsen rating. Priests drink too much wine, and nuns are the Gestapo in wimples. Among those destined to burn in hell are Roman Polanski, Big John Holmes, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. On Broadway and off, these glosses on Catholic dogma are raising smiles, nostalgic shudders and the occasional hackle, as young playwrights sculpt wicked ironies from the gothic fantasies of their parochial school youth...
This string of rosaries and remembrance began quietly enough. Last fall a gentle comedy-drama by a novice playwright tiptoed onto Broadway, after a run at the Manhattan Theater Club. Bill C. Davis' Mass Appeal lived up to its title, and this study of a wise, troubled priest and a rebellious young deacon is still going strong 160 performances later. Around the same time, Christopher Durang's Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You exploded off-Broadway. Written with the vindictive passion of a Jacobean tragedy and performed at a tempo the Marx brothers might have found...
...begins with a grisly anecdote: a young nun gives birth in her convent, strangles the infant and stuffs it in a wastebasket. From this tabloid tale, John Pielmeier has fashioned a mystery play about an enduring theological riddle: the virgin birth. Who sired Sister Agnes' child? A visiting priest? A local farm hand? Perhaps God himself? To determine whether Agnes (Amanda Plummer) is fit to stand trial for the murder, the court appoints a psychiatrist, Dr. Martha Livingstone (Elizabeth Ashley), to examine her. Soon enough, Agnes' superior, Mother Miriam Ruth (Geraldine Page), appoints herself as guardian...