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Label: Dramatists Play Service Inc
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Page Count: 63
Printing Date: 1999-08
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The New Yorker has called Terrence McNally 'one of our most original and audacious dramatists and one of our funniest.' He is the author of such critically acclaimed plays as Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, The Lisbon Traviata, and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. In Corpus Christi, McNally gives us his own unique view of the story of Christ, and in doing so provides us with one of the most vivid and moving passion plays written. McNally's controversial new play is an affirmation of faith and a drama of such power and scope that it has been called blasphemy by the religious right and hailed by audiences and critics alike as one of his best and most poignant works to date.
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Though unconventional and challenging, this play is the work of a true Christan: that is, of a person who's understood the meaning of Jesus Christ teaching of Love and Charity. Christ came for all of us, Christ is Love, and all Love is blessed in Him . Christ-and God- doesn't hate anyone, not even racist anti-gay bigots, for whoie souls He also prays-together with the blessed Matthew Shephard.
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I agree with Grant Henson. Homosexuality was never ok with God. It was one of the reasons Sodom and Gommorah were destroyed in the very first place. Destroyed with what? Raining sulphur. Some would call it fire. That's exactly how serious it is with God.
And to answer Brad Casali - Jesus IS sinless. Are you a Christian in the very first place? You might say that it's unjust of me to ask this question. But believe me, it's important. Cuz you're hideously misquoting Scripture. And Mary Magdelene WAS NOT married to Jesus. That's downright questioning the authority and authenticity of Jesus.
Jesus was not created in the likeness and image of man. That would mean that He actually came into the world by the union of man and woman. Which is not true. Which you would know if you read the Bible (maybe i should quote you "Read the book you moron". Pardon the crude usage of words). Ask yourself why Mary needed to conceive through the Holy Spirit in the very first place. So that no union would be made between man and woman, in which the seed of sin is passed down. Mary was only acting as a medium through which Christ came to earth. He's been in the world since it began, since He created it in the very first place, which means before man was created. So how can He be created in the likeness of man?!
You must be quoting John 20 by saying Mary was the very first to visit the tomb. Well, note John 20:2 and Luke 24:1. Mary was with the WOMEN. She wasn't alone. So Jesus is practising polygamy now? I'd encourage you to read those verses, that is, if your Bible isn't already collecting dust somewhere.
Just to make an impact: How would YOU feel if someone wrote a play depicting YOU as a homosexual or a play with pornographic elements with you in it?
Rotten?
Angry?
Feel like calling us Bible bangers now?
Would you like it if those who cared about you got angry about it and someone else who doesn't know you that well said: "It's a book, you morons. Read it because it has nothing to do with the real world."?
But back to the play.
In short, it's silly and totally un-Scriptural and it definitely serves it right for not being made into a movie.
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I did not purchase this play without expecting to be shocked. I found some parts of it to be extremely irreverent and downright blasphemous although I've always found the relationship between Judas and Jesus as depicted in straightforward (no pun intended) accounts of the passion play as having some subtext going on. Even in Jesus Christ Superstar, there seems to be a thread of jealousy on Judas's part that Jesus is spending more time with Mary Magdalene than the apostles. Of course, if as some scholars suggest, Jesus and Mary Magdalene were actually married, this would make Judas the third leg in an unrequited love triangle. What McNally has done has made (in the words of Joss Whedon) "the subtext quickly text." If you can ignore the homosexual content (both implicit and explicit), the story still comes across and there is a sense of spirituality that pervades the text of the play. I would like to have seen the original New York production, just to say I saw it. McNally makes no endeavor to disguise the homoeroticism between characters and has the all-male cast play both male and female roles throughout (with the exception of the actors playing Judas and Joshua/Jesus). Don't forget that even in Shakespeare's time, it was forbidden for women to act onstage so all of Shakespeare's heroines were originally played by men. Another interesting sidenote is how many actors in the original NY cast (Anson Mount played Joshua, Josh Lucas played Judas, Michael Hall of Six Feet Under and Ken Leung were apostles), have gone on to bigger and better things. Obviously no one is holding having performed in this play against them. It bothers me that some individuals have written a review of this play without having either seen a production of it or took the time to read the play itself. One thing I've find useful is to keep an open mind. Don't dwell on the gayness of the play. The humanity of Joshua/Jesus and his disciples is what comes through in the long run.
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I would like to start by saying I have not read this but I have just seen the play performed during the Edinburgh Festival.
This is not a shocking play it is a tender and moving depiction of the bible. Jesus/Joshua is shown to love all, Man and Woman, he is shown as a guiding force and one who is respected by his friends. Jesus is shown in the way that he should be shown as one who forgives and accepts that people are different, he is never shown as being only gay just a man who can love and accept all(correct me if I am wrong not having read the text)
This is not a play that should be shunned by the church it is one that should be embraced by it as it stands up for the true Christian meaning, we should love and respect ALL and most importantly forgive.
I only wish that some of the people who react badly to this play would atleast read or go and see it . It is then and ONLY then that I will listen to anything they have to say about it. A review can not and should not be given unless the author of that review has knowledge of what he/she is writing.
So in short if you want to see a well crafted take on "The greatest story ever told" go and see this play.
If you want to be shocked by a gay Jesus this is not the play for you.
George Cameron (real name)
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All I wanna say is that sooner or later you will all find out that homosexuality was NEVER ok with God. It is just as contrary to God's plan as adultery or any other grievous sin. And like always the author of anything that tells you otherwise is.. satan and his crowd. Goodness people why is it so hard to understand...
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