The Pope & The Witch

Finally, a theatrical production to argue about besides The Vagina Monologues.  Next March, the University of Minnesota will be putting on Dario Fo's play, The Pope and the Witch.  Here is the theater department's description:

A wild send-up of Catholicism and politics by Italy’s Nobel Prize-winning farceur.  In the Piazza San Pietro thousands of hungry children, the fruits of the Pope’s birth control doctrine, are crying for food.  Meanwhile he contends with assassination attempts, Mafiosi, drug dealers, sinister bankers, and inept cardinals.  Fo’s point is that it is easy for a rich church to rage against abortion when millions are born into poverty, and become victims of the drug trade, from which people under the Vatican’s protection can fill their pockets.

Bill Donohue has protested, albeit unsuccessfully.  As a university spokesman said, this is "a mainstream production."

Rob