Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!unc!mcnc!decvax!genrad!wjh12!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.motss Subject: Re: Almost banned in Boston! Message-ID: <943@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 17:37:10 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.943 Posted: Mon Sep 17 17:37:10 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 06:01:26 EDT References: <941@bbncca.ARPA> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 16 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 {decvax,linus,ima}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA