Passion Play

The Passion Play, “The Man Born to be King”, by Dorothy Sayers, ended its week-long run in Sligo’s Holy Cross Dominican Church last night and I am happy to report that my first night prediction that people would be turned away owing to full houses on the closing night was completely true. His Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. Dominic Conway, Bishop of Elphin, was among the audience last Friday night and he told me afterwards that he considered the production as “a meditation on the Passion”. Certainly it was the greatest stage success ever presented in Sligo and from all sections of the community who had the experience of seeing the play have come tributes of praise and commendation. It was definitely an intensely moving, sincerely acted, magnificently staged production, truly inspiring in its portrayal and dramatisation of those Eastertide events in the life of Christ. For my part, I wish to pay a personal tribute to all those who were associated with me in my end of the production and thank them for their co-operation, without which the measure of success achieved could never have been attained.

from The Sligo Champion, April 9th, 1971