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“Sister Margaret Alexander, the church pastor at the heart of the play, is a wonderfully exuberant figure who does exactly what Baldwin thought that the church-as-theatre should do: she involves her congregation, she shakes them up, and she tries to change them, no matter how forcefully. Yet her attempts at exercising authority over her flock while also denying her personal history renders her position within the church untenable by the play’s end and contributes to her exile.” Read more...
Ahmed Honeini, Literary Scholar
