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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.motss
Subject: Re: Almost banned in Boston!
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Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 17:37:10 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 17 17:37:10 1984
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Incidentally, I managed to see "Sister Mary Ignatius" two weeks ago when I was
in S.F., with Cloris Leachman in the title role.  All in all, this is a
wonderfully funny but disturbing play, and required viewing for anyone who
enjoyed a Catholic education.  It is hardly anti-Catholic; but it IS a
send-up of your typical parochial school nun of the 50's and early 60's.
Perhaps these Catholic "anti-defamation" leagues are worried that the truth
(and 90% of Durang's dialogue could be taken VERBATIM out of my early classroom
years) is simply too embarassing.

I would be interested to know how the play comes across to non-Catholics,
not to mention non-Christians: a lot of the humor comes from this feeling
of shared experience.  
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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