The Runner Stumbles
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 4, 2007
Closed Nov 24, 2007
Opened Nov 4, 2007
Closed Nov 24, 2007
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Could the anguish he suffers over his illicit passion for Sister Rita, a young nun, have caused Father Rivard to commit the ultimate sin of murder? The truth, when revealed, is nowhere near as simple. Based on a true story.
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Before there was Doubt, there was a tradition of theater works about priests whose faith is either tested or is already as weak as an oak leaf on a November bough. One of the most esteemed is Milan Stitt's 1976 play The Runner Stumbles, which TACT is giving a respectable revival under Scott Alan Evans' direction at The Beckett Theatre.
In order to register his profoundly dubious attitude towards religion, Stitt based his breast-beating drama on the actual early 19th-century case of a nun who' disappeared and was suspected to have been murdered by a priest. In his damning version of the facts at his disposal, Father Rivard (an intensely quivering Mark L. Montgomery) and Sister Rita (a fre[...]