Aug 21, 2018
What’s it wish to be each a priest and an expert actor?
George Drance, S.J. is the artist in residence at Fordham
College, the place he teaches appearing, a resident artist in La Mama’s
Nice Jones Repertory Firm, and the inventive director of Magis
Theatre Firm. We focus on his spiritual and inventive vocation,
how individuals within the theater world really feel about working with a priest,
the right way to take custody of your profession and select your roles with
integrity, Catholic vs. worldly concepts of success, and extra.
Hyperlinks
George Drance, S.J. Fordham school web page
https://www.fordham.edu/information/25064/theatre_full-time_faculty/10013/george_drance_sj/1
Magis Theatre Firm http://www.magistheatre.org
Timestamps
George Drance, S.J.
1:52 Being each a Jesuit priest and a working actor
6:50 How Fr. George seeks God in his work
8:11 Working in experimental theater with Nice Jones Repertory
and La MaMa; the legacy of Ellen Stewart
14:25 Navigating the theater world socially as a priest; how
theater individuals reply to Fr. George’s priesthood
18:59 Coping with the stress to take compromising roles;
taking custody of your profession as a younger actor
29:44 The benefit of getting a private apply as an
actor
33:34 There’s no disgrace in having a day job; rejecting worldly
conceptions of success
35:51 The fascinating profession of dramatist-priest Pedro Calderón
de la Barca (1600-1681); his Life Is a Dream
42:27 Magis Theatre Firm: actor coaching and reviving
forgotten classics
48:02 Adaptation of The Odyssey for highschool
college students
50:15 Magis’s upcoming present, Miracle in Rwanda, based mostly
on Left to Inform by Imaculée Ilibagiza
53:50 This week’s studying: Bl. John Henry Newman,
The Concept of a College
