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Feb 27, 2023<\/p>\n
Jane Clark Scharl discusses her play\u00a0Sonnez les Publisher’s description (from Wiseblood Books):<\/p>\n One Mardi Gras night in 1520s Paris, college students Jean Sonnez Les Matines imagines what might have happened if Links<\/strong><\/p>\n Tickets for March 8th performance of the play in NYC\u00a0 Buy the text of the play\u00a0https:\/\/www.wisebloodbooks.com\/store\/p127\/Sonnez_Les_Matines%2C_a_Verse_Play_by_J.C._Scharl.html<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe Dream of the Rood: A New Translation\u201d by Jane’s website https:\/\/jcscharl.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n DONATE to make this show possible!\u00a0http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n Go to Catholic Culture’s website for tons of written content,
\nMatines<\/em>, in which a young Ignatius of Loyola, Jean Calvin, and
\nFrancois Rabelais, together in 1520s Paris, find themselves
\nimplicated in a murder.<\/p>\n
\nCalvin (founder of Calvinism and autocratic ruler of Geneva),
\nIgnatius of Loyola (founder of the Counter-Reformation Catholic
\nreligious order, the Jesuits), and their bawdy friend Francois
\nRabelais (the humanist novelist) find themselves mixed up in a
\ngruesome murder\u2014and any one of them might be guilty. The ensuing
\ninvestigation sparks a battle of wits and weapons, plunging them
\ninto questions of justice and mercy, grace and sin, innocence,
\nguilt, love, and contempt. Before the bells ring in the start of
\nLent, they must confront the darkest parts of their souls and find
\nthe courage to pursue truth in a world that seems intent on
\nobscuring it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
\nthese three brilliant, volatile men had to put their convictions to
\nthe test while navigating a brutal crime and their own involvement
\nin it. When left to his own devices, each character speaks in his
\nown verse form, giving the play the feeling of a fierce sparring
\nmatch between masters. Calvin’s blank verse toys with despair as he
\nwrestles with doubts about the goodness of God and the possibility
\nof freedom; Ignatius commands situations in clipped iambic
\ntetrameter, revealing his background as a disciplined soldier,
\nwhile his passion for order shows through in frequent alliteration;
\nand Rabelais dances around with iambic rhyming couplets, cracking
\nprofane, bawdy jokes that unexpectedly become profound meditations
\non the mysteries of God, creation, and grace.<\/em><\/p>\n
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