Bathing in Moonlight
Opening Night: September 16, 2016
Closing: October 9, 2016
Theater: McCarter Theater Center
A priest is torn between two loves… Marcela and her Cuban-American family are struggling and Father Monroe offers them warmth and kindness. Generosity blossoms into love as the lines between vocation and passion begin to blur. Artistic Director Emily Mann and playwright Nilo Cruz reunite for the first time since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna in the Tropics with this lyrical and romantic new play.
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September 19, 2016
A Roman Catholic priest faces what might be called a crisis of humanity, rather than a crisis of faith, in “Bathing in Moonlight,” the gauzy new play from Nilo Cruz, which is having its premiere here at the McCarter Theater Center, where Mr. Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Anna in the Tropics” was also presented before moving to Broadway. Raúl Méndez plays Father Monroe, a priest who starts things off with a sermon, addressed to the audience, in which he shares an anecdote about a priest during World War II who expanded the boundaries of his church’s cemetery to include the grave of a soldier whose faith was unclear. “God wants us to remove barriers and walls,” Father Monroe says. “God wants us to extend the perimeters.”
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