by Amber Jackson Father James Martin is an ordained priest and member of the Society of Jesus, better known as the Jesuits. He has authored many books including The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life(2010) and My Life with the Saints, which, in 2007, was named by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the “Best Books of the […]
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Interview with Ron Marasco
by Carolyn Roark Ron Marasco has said that acting is “as close as I get to religion in terms of a quest of understanding other forces besides one’s self” (Nash par. 11). So one can easily see why he might be preoccupied with the spiritual dimensions of acting as an artistic practice. His new book, Notes […]
Interview with Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
by Christy Stanlake Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl is a well-known Honolulu playwright and author. She holds a master’s degree in drama and theatre from the University of Hawai`i. Her plays have been performed in Hawai`i and the continental United States and have toured to Britain, Asia, and the Pacific. An anthology of her work,Hawai`i Nei: Island […]
Interview with Eve Ensler
by Carolyn Roark Eve Ensler, performer and writer of the Obie award-winning Vagina Monologues, is an active advocate for the rights of women and girls, especially in international efforts to end the violence of assault, domestic abuse, genital mutilation, and other forms of oppression. The organization Ensler founded, V-Day, helps to raise funds and awareness for […]
Interview with Fr. Rick Curry, SJ
Kevin J. Wetmore: Since last we spoke, you have been ordained as a priest. You have said you did so because you were asked by veterans? How has it been being a priest (instead of a Jesuit brother) and has it affected your theatre work at all? Rick Curry, SJ: It’s very interesting. When you’re a brother, […]
Interview with Ysrael Campbell
Thomas Donnaruma sat down to talk with American-born, Catholic-raised Yisrael Campbell, who now resides in Israel and is a three-time convert to Judaism. His play, a one man show entitled Circumcise Me, ran at The Bleecker Street Theatre through 16 May 2010. As the show’s website extols, “Campbell is your average Irish, Italian Catholic kid from […]
Excerpt from “Spark” by Caridad Svich
Winner of the 2013 Latino Playwriting Award The flames of passion that stir the desire toward moral accountability in society—toward, for example, the indictment for war criminals that live quite comfortably among us with no shame attached to their names—seem to flicker in burning embers, as another election year is upon us. The talk all […]
The Comedy of the East, or the Art of Cunning
by Lenin El-Ramly Translated by Hazem Azmy Discussing the French Expedition to Egypt of which he was a witness,1 Egyptian Chronicler Abdel-Rahman al-Jabarti (1756-1825) wrote that the French had constructed special buildings at al-Azbakiyya quarter at which men and women would gather to engage in unrestricted entertainment and acts of licentiousness. As we get to know […]
Ecumenica 3.2
Fall 2010 Letter from the Editor Carolyn D. Roark Feature: Incorporation of the Incar(nation): Dorothy L. Sayers’s The Man Born to be King Bethany Wood Abstract:This article examines Dorothy L. Sayers’s World War II radio drama The Man Born to be King (1941), broadcast by the BBC, which contained the first explicit representation of Christ in a modern […]
Ecumenica 3.1
Spring 2010 Letter from the Editor Carolyn D. Roark Feature: Romanization, Rebellion, and the Theatre of Ancient Palestine Miriam Kammer Abstract: Because so little is known about theatre in ancient Palestine, the subject offers scholars an attractive enigma. On the one hand, Roman theatres—along with aqueducts and the control and use of local building resources by […]