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Crafting the Culture: Love, in the Theatre
By Carole | July 5, 2008
For the past year, a group of my friends have been talking about putting together a production of The Jeweler’s Shop by Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II). They have finally gone and done it, and this is the weekend. It’s happening in Aras Trasa, Clarendon Street, Dublin 2, at 8 PM.
The play, written for rhapsodic theater, uses words to explore the deep questions around love and marriage. The set is sparse, so the actors have to craft the scenes with their words. It is quite a difficult text, but I have to hand it to them, they’ve done it with a style and an elegance that is unusual for inexperienced thespians. Last night was the first performance, and it went very well. We had a short discussion about the play afterward with some of the audience who lingered, and one girl was in tears, describing the contrast between the message of the play regarding love, versus the message one gets in the prevailing culture.
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