2012 November
Opening this week: CREATURE
By Heidi Schreck
Tricia Rodley directs: Hope Theatre Ages 13+
Jan 24, 25, 26, 31, Feb 1, 2, 3
After being pestered by devils for more than half a year, Margery Kempe – new mother, mayor’s daughter, and proprietress of a highly profitable beer business – is liberated from her torment by a vision of Jesus Christ in purple robes.
Visions are hard to come by, even in 1401. Should we trust the new Margery, with her fasting and her weeping and her chastity fixation, or burn her with the other heretics? Can a woman of insatiable appetites just up and audition for sainthood? Playwright, OBIE-winning actor, and UO alumni Heidi Schreck conjures a collision of contemporary and medieval imaginations: a very funny, a little bit scary new play about faith and its messengers.