Aug 21, 2018
What’s it love to be each a clergyman and a pro actor?
George Drance, S.J. is the artist in place of dwelling at Fordham
College, the place he teaches appearing, a resident artist in Los angeles Mama’s
Nice Jones Repertory Corporate, and the creative director of Magis
Theatre Corporate. We talk about his spiritual and creative vocation,
how other folks within the theater international really feel about running with a clergyman,
methods to take custody of your occupation and select your roles with
integrity, Catholic vs. worldly concepts of good fortune, 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 Corporate http://www.magistheatre.org
Timestamps
George Drance, S.J.
1:52 Being each a Jesuit priest and a running actor
6:50 How Fr. George seeks God in his paintings
8:11 Running in experimental theater with Nice Jones Repertory
and Los angeles MaMa; the legacy of Ellen Stewart
14:25 Navigating the theater international socially as a clergyman; how
theater other folks reply to Fr. George’s priesthood
18:59 Coping with the drive to take compromising roles;
taking custody of your occupation as a tender actor
29:44 The good thing about having a private apply as an
actor
33:34 There’s no disgrace in having an afternoon process; rejecting worldly
conceptions of good fortune
35:51 The attention-grabbing occupation of dramatist-priest Pedro Calderón
de los angeles Barca (1600-1681); his Existence Is a Dream
42:27 Magis Theatre Corporate: actor coaching and reviving
forgotten classics
48:02 Adaptation of The Odyssey for highschool
scholars
50:15 Magis’s upcoming display, Miracle in Rwanda, based totally
on Left to Inform by means of Imaculée Ilibagiza
53:50 This week’s studying: Bl. John Henry Newman,
The Concept of a College
