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University Offers Refund On Tickets To Controversial Plays

By Howard M. Friedman

At Southeastern Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, a student production of Christopher Durang's, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, offended Wendy Kurka Rust. The campus theater in which the play was performed is one named after Rust-- presumably because she was a major donor to it. Yesterday's Southeastern Missourian reported that the University has offered to refund the play's $6.40 ticket price to anyone who requests it, and is also offering an $11.80 refund on tickets to Tony Kushner's, Angels in America. Rust wrote a letter to the school complaining about the Durang play, saying: "a play that ridicules and scorns the Christian religion under the label of satire is inappropriate to be included in the offering of season ticket holders." The University provost says that in the future, a committee will decide which plays being performed should be part of the season ticket package.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).