Critics pan Pope’s play
NZPA-Reuter Lucerne Swiss ? theatre critics unanimously panned “The Goldsmith’s Shop,” written hyl’. Pope John Paul II when he was still a Polish bishop, after its first public’showing outside Italy. “It is likely that the theatre has not lost an im-.; portant author' in Karol Wojtyla/?: commented the conservative “Neue Zuerchier Zeltung” in one of
Is subtitled “Meditations about the Sacrament of the Marriage Which Temporarily Change--■ into Drama.” “His meditations are ... not fit for a stage,” continued the “Neue Zuercher Zeltung,” a paper not given to : sweeping statements. It said the picture ofmarried ■ tuples presented^’Tooked. simply embarrassing in -the face •'S'-g,. i
leader of millions of faithful, it could be easily dismissed as village theatre.” “Der Bund,” of Bern, Conservative: “An awkwardly constructed, longiwinded and undifferentiated lecture on marriage ; . . with the arrogant pose /of one? who has mono- : polised truth .... A lost evening.”,; . - • “Tages-Anzeiger," Zar ' .Idu Mhe; meagre, sometimes bombastic text was exposed in its full theatri-
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