In Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s The First Stone, a family torn apart by war asks if what you have done is all that you are
Forgiveness is not necessarily a trending virtue at the moment, at least in certain parts of the online world where rush to judgment is common and apology frequently rejected.and find an argument for forgiving even the most unforgivable in an ambitious new production that opened in Toronto on Thursday night.now on at Buddies in Bad Times, is a story that centres on a very difficult subject: child soldiers.
Boy is mostly caught up by a budding crush – which Girl, who is starting to imagine a future as a mother for herself, clues into and starts teasing him about. “Why are you always watching me?” says Boy. “Are you trying to put God out of a job?”to disappear and the gentle, playful mise-en-scène of director Yvette Nolan’s production to turn nightmarish.
Grandpa’s explanations that he is following the command of God and somehow protecting locals by brutalizing the most vulnerable among them are paradoxical and perverse. He is a detestable figure much like the infamous Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. “What you have done is not all that you are,” Boy ultimately says – and the play invites us to consider, if we are willing to believe this when it comes child soldiers, we can also believe it when it comes to someone like Grandpa. Should we really not cast stones, as per the Bible verse referenced in the title, even at a monster?
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