It's perfectly fair to write that you feel the play is denigrating Catholicism because it uses elements of the ritual in its pan-theistic creation of a new religion (though I would challenge you to unhysterically say why that is a denigration, rather than a recycling). It is not fair to write that the point of the show is the denigrate the religion without offering any further proof, such as author statements, etc. I can assure you, the point of the play is not to denigrate Catholicism. He may be using element
And for what it's worth, as originally written, all of the men in the audience were supposed to receive their own baby for that service... I guess that the realities of Off-Broadway budgets necessitated one baby instead of 100. I always felt that the worship sections in the play had more to do with hippy cults than Catholics, but we all bring in our own reference points. |
