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!hou3c!hocda!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!genrad!wjh12!bbncca!rrizzo 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 Article-I.D.: bbncca.942 Posted: Mon Sep 17 15:28:04 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 05:40:07 EDT Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 22 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!