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Redemption by Anthony Crowley at La Mama Courthouse. Tom Considine as Terry, in a grey cardigan over clerical black, and Anthony Crowley as Ben, in a black clerical shirt, sit across a mahogany table on a blood-red carpet.
Redemption by Anthony Crowley at La Mama Courthouse. Tom Considine as Terry, in a grey cardigan over clerical black, and Anthony Crowley as Ben, in a black clerical shirt, sit across a mahogany table on a blood-red carpet.

Redemption

Redemption

by Anthony Crowley

by Anthony Crowley

A visceral and ultimately shocking two-hander, unfolds in a single night within a forgotten country parish rectory. The play follows the reunion of two priests: Ben, the new face of the Catholic Church, sent to investigate a retired Monsignor accused of sexually abusing a boy thirty years ago, and Terry, his neglected mentor, who believes in the redemptive power of Christ's mercy.

The set design, featuring a pontoon-like space floating in a black void, isolates the two characters as they converse across a table. The space evokes an ecclesiastical setting in decay, with slumped floor revealing thousands of torn bible pages beneath the blood red carpet of the rectory. The haunting visual metaphor underscores the play's exploration of faith, guilt, and the search for truth in the face of the Church's dark history of abuse.

Role

Set & Costume Designer

Venue

La Mama Courthouse

Collaborators

Director: Petra Kalive
Lighting Designer: Lisa Mibus
Sound Designer: Raya Slavin
Set Construction: Jim Stenson

Photography: Sarah Walker

Wide view of the set: a pontoon of blood-red carpet floating in a black void, its slumped, torn edges revealing torn bible pages beneath, with Tom Considine as Terry and Anthony Crowley as Ben seated at a table.
Wide view of the set: a pontoon of blood-red carpet floating in a black void, its slumped, torn edges revealing torn bible pages beneath, with Tom Considine as Terry and Anthony Crowley as Ben seated at a table.
Tom Considine as Terry, in a grey cardigan and clerical collar, glares from his chair beside a table holding a red book, Ben's black-clad figure blurred in the foreground.
Tom Considine as Terry, in a grey cardigan and clerical collar, glares from his chair beside a table holding a red book, Ben's black-clad figure blurred in the foreground.
Anthony Crowley as Ben, in a black clerical shirt and trousers, stands with a hand to his brow at the torn edge of the red carpet as Tom Considine as Terry watches from his chair.
Anthony Crowley as Ben, in a black clerical shirt and trousers, stands with a hand to his brow at the torn edge of the red carpet as Tom Considine as Terry watches from his chair.
Anthony Crowley as Ben sits laughing on the slumped edge of the red carpet, bottle raised, in a black clerical shirt and collar.
Anthony Crowley as Ben sits laughing on the slumped edge of the red carpet, bottle raised, in a black clerical shirt and collar.
Tom Considine as Terry, in a grey cardigan over a black clerical shirt and collar, gazes upward into the dark as Anthony Crowley as Ben looks down behind him.
Tom Considine as Terry, in a grey cardigan over a black clerical shirt and collar, gazes upward into the dark as Anthony Crowley as Ben looks down behind him.
Tom Considine as Terry scowls at the table in headphones and a grey cardigan, torn bible pages spilling across the floor behind his chair.
Tom Considine as Terry scowls at the table in headphones and a grey cardigan, torn bible pages spilling across the floor behind his chair.

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