{"id":9144,"date":"2019-07-22T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T09:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=9144"},"modified":"2025-02-20T07:03:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:03:58","slug":"set-apart-%e2%80%a2-a-new-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=9144","title":{"rendered":"Set Apart \u2022 A New Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adapted by Thomas F. Rogers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

from the novel “THE MTC: SET APART”<\/em> by Benson Parkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n

(For production by LDS Church, Community, and College\/University groups)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Corry Anthon, athletic and playful, has come on a mission with just enough of a testimony to make him ill at ease. Phil Jeppsen, an Australian convert and former vagabond, welcomes the MTC’s discipline\u2014it’s his companions he has problems with. Good-natured, bumbling Harvey Wilberg, who has put off a mission, torments the others with his childish jokes but also has a childlike heart. Malan Rignell, a rancher’s son, is quietly witty and clumsy in others’ company, but no one guesses his strong self-doubt or his talent as a peacemaker. Adapted from Ben Parkinson\u2019s groundbreaking novel\u2014thoughtful, realistic, spiritual\u2014this play showcases the experiences shared, but rarely documented, by tens of thousands of LDS youth. Rogers captures Parkinson\u2019s vision of life in the MTC, a place “set apart” from the world, by exploring the backgrounds and conversions of characters who are all the more compelling for being so human, which is to say less than perfect, more like the rest of us. The play is intelligent, rich, true and broad-ranging in its depiction of the spiritual struggles of missionary-age young people. This is the story of Corianton, set in modern times, and does not shy away from the situations and themes that surrounded Alma’s son.<\/p>\n

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