Off-Broadway Play Comes To Roswell

Published: September 2, 2004

ROSWELL—Queen of Angels School will sponsor the off-Broadway play “Late Nite Catechism” on Saturday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Blessed Trinity High School auditorium, 11320 Woodstock Road.

“Late Nite Catechism” has been called “an uproarious piece of theater that takes audience members back—sometimes nostalgically, sometimes fearfully—to the children they once were.” The interactive comedy allows audience members to become the students of an adult catechism class, led by the irrepressible “Sister,” who goes from benevolent instructor, rewarding the “students” for correct answers with glow-in-the-dark rosaries and laminated saint cards, to authoritative drill sergeant.

The play, created by Vicki Quade and Maripat Donovan, was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award in New York and recently won the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Performance for Donovan. “Late Nite Catechism” is currently playing in eight cities nationwide, and productions in Boston and Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, recently closed after playing two years in each city.

Tickets for the Oct. 23 show are $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Tickets may be purchased at Queen of Angels School, which is located on the same property as Blessed Trinity, or by using the order forms available in the local area parish bulletins that began running on Aug. 22. Proceeds from the event will be directed to the Queen of Angels’ Tuition Assistance Fund, which helps families to send their children to the school. The school’s principal, Kathy Wood, says that the fund benefits all students.

For further information or to order tickets, call (770) 518-1804, ext. 734, or visit the school’s Web site at www.qaschool.org.