Mass Appeal
A Plays, Theatre book. A fantastic play filled with wit and wisdom.
Father Tim Farley, a lover of the good things in life, is comfortably ensconced as priest of a prosperous Catholic congregation. Without realizing it, he has resorted to flattering his parishioners and entertaining them with sermons that skirt any disturbing issues, in order to protect his Mercedes, his trips abroad and the generous supply of fine wines that grace his table (and his desk drawer). His well-ordered world is disrupted by the arrival of Mark Dolson, an intense and idealistic young seminarian whom Father Farley reluctantly agrees to take under his wing. There is immediate conflict between the two as the younger man challenges the older priest's sybaritic ways, while Father Farley is appalled by Mark's confession that he had led a life of bisexual promiscuity before entering the priesthood. In the final essence their confrontation is a touching yet very...
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- Pages: 49 pages
- ISBN: 9780822207382 / 822207389
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read 06.11.86 A fantastic play filled with wit and wisdom. There is something pleasantly suspended-in-aspic about this play, which dates from the half decade or so before AIDS when American popular culture seemed almost ready to give homosexuality a middle class liberal hearing. If American attitudes toward homosexuality have changes in 30 years ("let 'em get married and let 'em see just what...
