Found a quote that sums up all that I've been feeling about "Christian Theatre" of late....whether that be the performance of overtly Christian material, or the performance of secular material by Christians.
"Toward the end of the twenties I began to lose pleasure in going to the theatre. I ceased to believe in the stories I saw presented there. When I did go it was to admire some secondary aspect of the play, the work of a great actor or director or designer. Yet at the same time the conviction was growing in me that the theatre was the greatest of all the arts. I felt that something had gone wrong with it in my time and that it was fulfilling only a small part of its potentialities?The tragic had no heat; the comic had no bite; the social criticism failed to indict us with responsibility."
Thornton Wilder
Posted by stephanie at September 21, 2003 04:13 PM