Conviction
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 23, 2010
Closed Mar 21, 2010
Opened Feb 23, 2010
Closed Mar 21, 2010
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Running Time:
1hr. 24min.
1hr. 24min.
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Conviction is a true story of faith and forbidden love in the shadow of the Spanish Inquisition.
In Franco-ruled Madrid, an Israeli scholar is detained for stealing a confidential Inquisition file. Contained within: the true confession of Spanish priest Andres Gonzalez (1446 - 1486), whose faith is tested when he finds himself in love with a Jewish woman.
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
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RE:Powerfully moving
This was one of those powerfully intense plays that I know will stay with me for a long, long time. The play itself is so beautifully written that it transcends the plot to mean much more. It makes me want to read the text so I can savor it. Then the acting was just superb. All three actors had moments in which they shone, but of special note was Catharine Pilafas. The set was clever, using the small stage space well. Lights, music, costuming all added to one very powerful evening. Left me thinking and moved. Cant say better than that.
Reviewed by mrc0201
on Wednesday, Mar 10th, 2010
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If you're not up on your medieval Spanish history, you might want to arrive early enough at Conviction, now at 59E59 Theaters, to crib from the program notes. But don't worry if you don't; facts and figures fade beside the elemental force of this foredoomed love story, which is played out with palpable passion.
The play is presented within the framework of a research mission to Madrid's Archivo Histórico Nacional in 1962. It's then and there that Israeli professor Chaim Tal (co-author Ami Dayan) has been apprehended trying to smuggle out a file containing the transcribed interrogation of a 15th-century priest, Andrés González.
Tal himself is being interrogated -- in [...]