Urban Nun
This monologue also forms part of a longer play, Into. The inspiration for the longer play came from a Julio Cortazar short story, The Southern Thruway, but Urban Nun is all mine. Coincidentally, the exact same things make us angry.
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Synopsis:
A nun recounts a weekend in the country that ends in the venial sin of Cardinal murder, and the cardinal sin of isolation.
Character:
URBAN NUN - any age.
Time:
Only slightly in the future.
The style and setting:
Should be a little magic. At the start, URBAN NUN is performing her story in a club. It's a routine and maybe a public expiation. As she gets further into the story and her anger deepens, magic elements appear - in particular sound.
Play history:
The wonderful Marium Carvell was the first Urban Nun, in a Toronto Fringe production of Into, directed by Colin Taylor.
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