Monday, April 11, 2011

To Oxford....

...late at night, after catching dinner in London with friends. Spent part of the weekend with the team involved with the play The Quality of Mercy being presented by a young drama group in April as part of the celebrations for the Beatification of Pope John Paul II.

The first really warm weekend of 2011, lunch in a beautiful Oxford garden, then a walk across the Christchurch meadows to St Aldates, where the drama team was in full rehearsal. A change of mood from sunny chatting-over-lunch to the voices and action of a stage production, young people coming and going, directions being given. Perched on a chair taking notes, watching the thing take shape, I had the sudden thought: the young Woytila would have been absolutely at home here...

Get a flavour of the play and its message here...

1 comment:

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