{"id":16361,"date":"2012-05-01T09:51:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16361"},"modified":"2012-05-01T09:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T13:51:28","slug":"the-diocese-of-new-westminster-does-godspell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-new-westminster-does-godspell\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diocese of New Westminster does Godspell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And, surprise, surprise, when the production opens in Christ Church Cathedral in May, the diocese will \u201cdare the audience to consider Christ anew\u201d by having a female Jesus and portraying the crucifixion as a regrettable episode of school bullying taken a step too far. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver.anglican.ca\/portals\/0\/repositoRy\/05_2012Topicweb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> goes on to speculate that the \u201cproduction of <em>Godspell <\/em>will instigate fresh thinking in those who come to see it.\u201d Not really, it\u2019s entirely predictable.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Was the crucifixion of Christ a supreme act of bullying? <em>Godspell <\/em>Director, Rev. Andrew Halladay and Director of Music, Rev. David Taylor believe that Jesus was bullied. Bullying is a hot topic \u2014 not just in Canada \u2014 but also around the world. In March, both the Liberals and the Conservatives introduced bills meant to influence the way that Canadian educators deal with bullies in our schools.<\/p>\n<p>What does it mean to have the role of Jesus played by a woman? By casting theological student Clare Morgan as Jesus, Halladay and Taylor break from the typical <em>Godspell <\/em>formula. The role of the typical <em>Godspell <\/em>Jesus is difficult to fill. The role requires a male soprano. When Halladay and Taylor began casting their <em>Godspell<\/em>, they already considered inviting a woman to play Jesus \u2014 to honor the talent that confronted them and to dare the audience to consider Christ anew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, surprise, surprise, when the production opens in Christ Church Cathedral in May, the diocese will \u201cdare the audience to consider Christ anew\u201d by having a female Jesus and portraying the crucifixion as a regrettable episode of school bullying taken &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-diocese-of-new-westminster-does-godspell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2110,816],"class_list":["post-16361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-godspell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}