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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 5w, 1m
Charles Busch
Charles Busch’s outrageous comedy pays homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns.
Nominee: Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Play
The Divine Sister is an outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns. Evoking such films as The Song of Bernadette, The Bells of St. Mary’s, The Singing Nun and Agnes of God, The Divine Sister tells the story of St. Veronica’s indomitable Mother Superior, who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with a young postulant who is experiencing “visions,” sexual hysteria among her nuns, a sensitive schoolboy in need of mentoring, a mysterious nun visiting from the Mother House in Berlin, and a former suitor intent on luring her away from her vows. This madcap trip through Hollywood religiosity evokes the wildly comic but affectionately observed theatrical style of the creator of Die Mommie Die! and Psycho Beach Party.
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The Divine Sister made its New York City premiere at Theater for the New City, under executive artistic director Crystal Field, on 6 February 2010. On 22 September 2010, the play opened off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse. Directed by Carl Andress, the production featured Charles Busch, Julie Halston, Alison Fraser, Amy Rutberg, Jennifer Van Dyck and Jonathan Walker.
AGNES SISTER WALBURGA MRS. MACDUFFIE SISTER ACACIUS, AKA LIL MOTHER SUPERIOR, AKA SUSAN MRS. LEVINSON TIMOTHY JEREMY BROTHER VENERIUS
The role of Mother Superior was originally played by the author, Charles Busch. It is not necessary for this role to be played by a man in drag. The role must be played by a skilled comic performer. For a cast of 6, please see the outlined doubling: MOTHER SUPERIOR SISTER WALBURGA / MRS. MACDUFFIE SISTER ACACIUS AGNES MRS. LEVINSON / TIMOTHY JEREMY / BROTHER VENERIUS
The role of Mother Superior was originally played by the author, Charles Busch. It is not necessary for this role to be played by a man in drag. The role must be played by a skilled comic performer.
For a cast of 6, please see the outlined doubling:
MOTHER SUPERIOR SISTER WALBURGA / MRS. MACDUFFIE SISTER ACACIUS AGNES MRS. LEVINSON / TIMOTHY JEREMY / BROTHER VENERIUS
Pittsburgh. April 1966.
“Cue the Hallelujah chorus! This gleefully twisted tale… is Mr. Busch's freshest, funniest work in years.” – The New York Time
“Delightfully unholy comedy.” – Broadway World
“Outrageous… you’re bound to love this madcap and affectionate sendup… The jokes are smart and knowing.” – DC Theater Arts
“Cue the Hallelujah chorus! Charles Busch has put on a nun’s habit and is talking to God, from whom he has evidently received blessed counsel. The Divine Sister, his new comedy at the SoHo Playhouse, finds Mr. Busch at peak form. This gleefully twisted tale of the secret lives of nuns – in which the playwright doubles as leading lady – is Mr. Busch's freshest, funniest work in years, perhaps decades.” – The New York Times
The Divine Sister – SoHo Playhouse Montage
Charles Busch on The Divine Sister
Charles Busch is the author and star of such plays as The Divine Sister, The Lady in Question, Red Scare on Sunset, The Confession of Lily Dare and Vampire Lesbians of Sodom; one of the longest-running plays in the history of off-Broadway. His play The Tale of the Allergist’s ...