A New York theater company announced it will continue its "Karol Wojtyla Theatre Festival" by producing two more plays by the late Pope John Paul II.

The Storm Theatre kicked off the festival last spring by producing "The Jeweler's Shop" and "Our God's Brother," both of which were written by Karol Wojtyla, who took the name John Paul II when he became pope.

Starting next week and running through Nov. 18, the company will stage "Job" and "Jeremiah."

Although the pope's chief interest in theater as a young man was in acting, he also wrote several plays.

His work grew out of his experiences with Mieczysaw Kotlarczk and the Rhapsodic Theatre, a group that performed in secret during the Nazi occupation of Poland as a means of preserving their national literature, The Storm Theatre said in a statement. // Copyright 2007 by United Press International


Publication date: 02 October 2007   

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