Play 3, 2008

Edith Stein

by Arthur Giron

Directed by Brian Cannon

 
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The Play

One woman's search for truth…  in a world of evil

Edith Stein was a German philosopher, who was born a Jew, became a Catholic in 1922 and then a Carmelite nun in 1934. She was rounded up with other Jews under the Nazi holocaust and died at Auschwitz in 1942.

The play traces Edith's journey from the university, to the convent and eventually to the gas chamber and dramatises the tensions between Christians and Jews that have developed around a woman that incarnates both identities.

2008 marks the tenth anniversary of her canonisation.

 

The Director

Brian Cannon has directed and appeared in numerous plays for Villanova Players. In 2007 he directed the powerful 'The Beauty Queen of Linane" and his most recent on stage appearances were as the judge in "To Kill a Mockingbird" in 2005 and the swaggering, belligerent Big Daddy in Tennessee Williams "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

 

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“Edith Stein” will play at

"The Theatre"
Morningside Campus of the Southbank Institute of TAFE,
Clearview Terrace, Morningside

Evenings at 8:00pm

Fri 29th , Sat 30th  August,
Thurs 4th , Fri 5th, Sat 6th  September
Thurs 11th, Fri 12th, Sat 13th  September

Matinees at 2:00pm

Sun 31st  August,
Sat 6th, Sun 7th September
Sat 13th  September

Prices: $16 / $13 / $11 / $6
Air Conditioned - Free Off-street Parking.


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