B'nai B'rith called the play ''offensive, unfair and demeaning. Content Christopher Durang’s 1979 play, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, skewers the sanctimonious dogma that informed the educational practices of many Roman Catholic schools in the 1950s. FEE: $50 per performance. A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman. A powerful Hollywood journalist and an upstart creative assistant.
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Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You is a play by Christopher Durang. Author bio(s) $10.00. With Diane Keaton, Brian Benben, Wallace Langham, Laura San Giacomo. He is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.In The St. Louis Review, the Archdiocesan weekly newspaper, Archbishop John L. May criticized ''Sister Mary Ignatius'' as a ''vile diatribe against all things Catholic.''
The film, based upon Durang's 1979 play Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, and starring Diane Keaton in the title role, premiered on the Showtime network. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Apply for Rights. Based on the book Crossed Over: A Murder/A Memoir by Beverly Lowry, Crossed Over tells the true story of a woman, Beverly Lowry, who after the tragic hit-and-run death of her teenage son, ... Sister Mary Explains It All is a 2001 satirical dark comedy film written by Christopher Durang and directed by Marshall Brickman. He called for all Catholics in the St. Louis area to boycott it, acknowledging, however, the theatrical group's right to present the play.The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the National Conference of Christians and Jews sided with the Archbishop. A bigoted, fanatical nun comes face to face with the lives she ruined through her teachings when a quartet of her traumatized former students return to perform at her Christmas Eve church lecture. A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close. "sister mary ignatius explains it all for you. Durang Expressed ViewAlthough he declined to comment on the current controversy, Mr. Durang said in an interview in 1981: ''I didn't write this play to throw water in the face of those who believe. Weeks of debate have preceded the opening here Friday of Christopher Durang's ''Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You,'' a satirical play about Roman Catholic education.Mr.
Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980's Atlantic City performing the songs of the 60's girl groups in this self-indulgent comedy. He noted that ''Sister Mary Ignatius'' had caused the New York State Senate to discuss future guidelines prohibiting the use of public funds for productions defamatory to religious, racial and ethnic groups.TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers.This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. Time with her best friends and some of Sara's friends help her deal with her loss. State Senator Edwin L. Dirck, a Democrat from St. Ann and an opponent of the production, said that when the Missouri Arts Council budget was reviewed this year his committee would question continuing state support for the agency. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which is owned by Pulitzer, has criticized this group.Archbishop May challenged assertions that St. Louis was the only place where the play had come under attack.