The production playing both in-person and live-streamed combines excellent acting with creative lighting for a powerful, thought-provoking performance.
"Agnes of God," opening this weekend at Holland Community Theatre, explores some difficult questions. The three-woman play follows a novice nun, a determined Mother Superior and a court-appointed psychiatrist.
The purpose behind the performance of the philosophical drama
Agnes of God was “to explore how theatre can serve as a vehicle for discussion and dialogue on the human quest for existential meaning” and to illuminate the seemingly stark divide between believers and non-believers. It is safe to say the play delivered on this intention, not least because of the charged nature of this topic in contemporary Malta.
The play cut close to the bone and proved rather absorbing. But while aptly calling into question the presuppositions that audiences brought to the theatre, it may have also reinforced a seemingly irreconcilable rift between faith and reason, spirituality and science.