Cruel Twist of Faith
Cynical tale details 1600s-era church strife
Hang on to your wimples. The Seduction of Almighty God is here, and it’s sure to have conservative religious types twisting in their pews for weeks to come.
Set in the 1600s, during the disbanding of the English monasteries, Howard Barker’s cynical story of this grave era in English history scrutinizes its impact on religious faith and details the vast Church corruption that followed. All of this dire history is offset by a fictional and wildly gregarious boy priest whose innocent and passionate belief in God provides a canny counterpoint. The usual commentaries on religious conviction abound: It’s a convenience for people of loose morals; it’s good for masking aberrant sexuality; it’s the only proper choice of good people everywhere.
Thursdays-Saturdays. Starts: May 14. Continues through May 30, 2009
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