Miracle in Rwanda

Regular visitors will have realised that I've not been blogging much lately. This is because I've been in Edinburgh enjoying several plays a day at the Festival. One of the plays really deserves a heads-up for the rest of you if you get a chnace to see it, the eponymous play is brilliant. Here's the mise-en-scene:

Immaculée's family was brutally murdered during the three-month slaughter that began in April 1994. Miraculously, Immaculée managed to survive. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently and cramped together in an undiscovered extra bathroom in a local pastor's home.

Probably the most dominent theme is forgiveness, beginning with Immaculée having to do a deal with God about praying to forgive trespasses in the Lord's prayer as she tries to say her rosary. The rest of the play returns to her praying various of the mysteries of the Rosary which act as a theological comment on the events and usher in a couple of visions one of Christ and another of Mary. The writing is good and the performance is good -really conveying to me, at least, the terror of the situation and something of the psych-spirituality of forgiving.

I'm thinking of getting the book as there must surely be more to reflect on around the theme of forgiveness in it.
Sneak peek at Miracle in Rwanda
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