Feb 27, 2023
Jane Clark Scharl discusses her play Sonnez les
Matines, during which a younger Ignatius of Loyola, Jean Calvin, and
Francois Rabelais, collectively in 1520s Paris, discover themselves
implicated in a homicide.
Writer’s description (from Wiseblood Books):
One Mardi Gras evening in 1520s Paris, school college students Jean
Calvin (founding father of Calvinism and autocratic ruler of Geneva),
Ignatius of Loyola (founding father of the Counter-Reformation Catholic
spiritual order, the Jesuits), and their bawdy pal Francois
Rabelais (the humanist novelist) discover themselves combined up in a
grotesque homicide—and any certainly one of them is likely to be responsible. The following
investigation sparks a battle of wits and weapons, plunging them
into questions of justice and mercy, grace and sin, innocence,
guilt, love, and contempt. Earlier than the bells ring within the begin of
Lent, they need to confront the darkest components of their souls and discover
the braveness to pursue reality in a world that appears intent on
obscuring it.
Sonnez Les Matines imagines what might need occurred if
these three sensible, unstable males needed to put their convictions to
the take a look at whereas navigating a brutal crime and their very own involvement
in it. When left to his personal gadgets, every character speaks in his
personal verse type, giving the play the sensation of a fierce sparring
match between masters. Calvin’s clean verse toys with despair as he
wrestles with doubts concerning the goodness of God and the likelihood
of freedom; Ignatius instructions conditions in clipped iambic
tetrameter, revealing his background as a disciplined soldier,
whereas his ardour for order exhibits by way of in frequent alliteration;
and Rabelais dances round with iambic rhyming couplets, cracking
profane, bawdy jokes that unexpectedly change into profound meditations
on the mysteries of God, creation, and beauty.
Hyperlinks
Tickets for March Eighth efficiency of the play in NYC
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sonnez-les-matines-march-Eighth-tickets-554768656987
Purchase the textual content of the play https://www.wisebloodbooks.com/retailer/p127/Sonnez_Les_Matinespercent2C_a_Verse_Play_by_J.C._Scharl.html
“The Dream of the Rood: A New Translation” by
Tessa Carman and J.C. Scharl
https://thelampmagazine.com/weblog/the-dream-of-the-rood-a-new-translation
Jane’s web site https://jcscharl.com/
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