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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: Almost banned in Boston!
Message-ID: <942@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 15:28:04 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 17 15:28:04 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 05:40:07 EDT
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For netters who come to Boston:

If you've ever attended parochial school or been curious about the exper-
ience, try to catch the American Repertory Theater production of Christo-
pher Durang's SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL TO YOU at the Charles
Playhouse, 74 Warrenton Street, Boston (617-426-6912), starting  today,
September 17.  The play features Tony-nominee Elizabeth Franz in the title
role she made famous during the original NY production in 1981.

A group calling itself the Anti-Defamation Committee of the Massachusetts
Chapter of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights [sic.] (I
kid you not!) is protesting the run.  The play has been harassed by the
RCC across the country: in St. Louis the company was forced out of one
playhouse into another; in Detroit the archdiocese threatened to block
production and rather hysterically labeled the play "virulently anti-
Catholic".  The Boston Catholic group has fatuously tried to enlist B'nai
B'rith in its banning attempt.  Drama critic Kevin Kelly devotes his column
to the matter in today's (9/17/84) BOSTON GLOBE.

And all this denunciation of the stage from a church whose head (Karel
Wojtyla) is a former playright!