By Charles Busch
IOWA PREMIERE
DATES June 15-24, 2012 , calendar
TIMES Wed-Sat at 7:30 p.m., Sun at 3 p.m.
TICKET info
RED CARPET OPENING NIGHT June 15, 6 p.m., details
SUNDAY TALK-BACK June 17, 5 p.m., details
Direct from a heralded Off-Broadway run at the SoHo Playhouse, The Divine Sister is an outrageous comic celebration of nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns. Evoking such films as The Sound of Music, The Bells of St. Mary’s, The Singing Nun and Doubt, it tells the story of St. Veronica’s indomitable Mother Superior who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with a young postulant who is experiencing “visions,” sexual hysteria among her nuns, a sensitive schoolboy in need of mentoring, a mysterious nun visiting from the Mother House in Berlin, and a former suitor intent on luring her away from her vows! It’s madcap, miraculous, zany fun!
“Mr. Busch’s freshest, funniest work in years, perhaps decades.” The New York Times
“A 90-minute jolt of humor, silliness, satire and even affection, it is an old-fashioned campy miracle!” The Baltimore Sun
CAST
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Deena Conley
Stage Manager: Cedric Fevrier
Production Stage Manager: Rachael Rhoades
Scenic Designer: Steve McLean
Lighting Designer: Jim Trenberth
Costume Designer: Jill Frank
Sound Designer: Josh Jepson
Props Designer: Austin Kopsa
Hair/Wig/Make-up Designer: Cindy Hummel
Dramaturge:
Carpenter: Paul Mostrom
