Agnes of God
- Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day
- 3F
- ISBN: 9780573630224
"Riveting, powerful, electrifying drama...the dialogue crackles."
New York Daily News
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: Present Day
- Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
- Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
- Cautions: Smoking
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student
Who killed the infant and who fathered the tiny victim? Livingstone's questions force all three women to re-examine the meaning of faith and the power of love leading to a dramatic, compelling climax.
A hit on Broadway and later on film.
REVIEWS:
"Riveting, powerful, electrifying drama...the dialogue crackles."
New York Daily News
"Outstanding play [that]...deals intelligently with questions of religion and psychology."
The New York Times
"Unquestionably blindingly theatrical...cleverly executed blood and guts evening in the theatre."
New York Post
Professional premiere at Actors' Theatre of Louisville, March, 1980.
Characters
- Casting: 3F
- Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting, Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle), All Female, Non-Traditional casting
MOTHER MIRIAM RUTH - Woman, 60's
AGNES - Woman, 20's
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Summoned to a convent, Dr. Martha Livingstone, a court-appointed psychiatrist, is charged with assessing the sanity of a novice accused of murdering her newborn. Miriam Ruth, the Mother Superior, determinedly keeps young Agnes from the doctor, arousing Livingstone's suspicions further. |
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