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Divine Sister, The
[29657]

$9.95

ISBN 978-0-573-69886-6

Charles Busch

Comedy

1m, 5f

Multiple Sets

Nominee! Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Play

The Divine Sister is an outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns. Evoking such films as The Song of Bernadette, The Bells of St. Mary’s, The Singing Nun and Agnes of God, The Divine Sister 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.

This madcap trip through Hollywood religiosity evokes the wildly comic but affectionately observed theatrical style of the creator of Die, Mommie, Die! and Psycho Beach Party.

“Cue the “Hallelujah” chorus! Charles Busch has put on a nun’s habit and is talking to God, from whom he has evidently received blessed counsel. The Divine Sister, his new comedy at the SoHo Playhouse, finds Mr. Busch at peak form. This gleefully twisted tale of the secret lives of nuns — in which the playwright doubles as leading lady — is Mr. Busch’s freshest, funniest work in years, perhaps decades.” --The New York Times

FEE: $100 per performance

Music available for $12.95 material fee plus $15 per performance music licensing fee.

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Character Descriptions:
Agnes
Sister Walburga
Mrs. MacDuffie
Sister Acacius aka Lil
Mother Superior aka Susan
Mrs. Levinson
Timothy
Jeremy
Brother Venerius
Please note that the actor who plays Sister Walburg also plays Mrs. MacDuffie, the actor who plays Mrs. Levinson also plays Timothy, and the actor who plays Jeremy also plays Brother Venerius.

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