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The Duty of Saints

Short Play, Drama  /  2w, 1m

Jules Tasca

A Bishop requests a meeting - with a young woman journalist he has known since her childhood who has been writing critical articles about the Church - and her mother. He intends to discuss the beatification and potential canonizing of the girl's sister, a missionary nun killed abroad. During the m…

The Duty of Saints

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A Bishop requests a meeting - with a young woman journalist he has known since her childhood who has been writing critical articles about the Church - and her mother. He intends to discuss the beatification and potential canonizing of the girl's sister, a missionary nun killed abroad. During the meeting he discovers that the image he held of the family was an illusion, in which he unwittingly participated, as she reveals a dark family secret.

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Jules Tasca

Jules Tasca

Through I.U.P., Jules Tasca has taught playwrighting at Oxford University in England and he has performed with a commedia dell’arte group in Central Italy. He is the author of over 125 (full-length and one-act) published plays that have been produced in numerous national thea ...

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