Final plug...

THE LAST PRIEST lifts off this Saturday with an outstanding cast at the helm. (Did I just mix metaphors? Why yes; yes, I did. Watch a future issue about these and other well-worded cooking tips.)

And in the end,
the love you give
is equal to
the love you make.
—The Beatles

THE LAST PRIEST features Teri Mott, Maddy Campbell, Diane Tinker Hurst, JR Hurst, Arietta Austin, Marius “Ace” Ausbie, Julie Williams, Daniel Gonzalez-Myers, and Chelsea Clark, with Deb Campbell directing and reading stage directions.

Special thanks to Jessie Grey for hosting at The Flying Pig Improv Theatre at Hillside and Douglas. 2 pm. It’s free, but if you can, drop me a note if you plan to come.

In 1904, a new century burgeons with innovation; waves of immigrants face rampant xenophobia; women are restless for equality; health care lags despite medical breakthroughs. Father Jamison welcomes a bitter, angry Kath to a leper hospital off the coast of Massachusetts. Kath joins a Black married couple forbidden to cohabitate or have children, an Irish woman and Portuguese man happier among the lepers than in a country hostile to them, an unorthodox priest, and an overworked hospital director. On the mainland, an ambitious woman and the local tabloid whip up mob hysteria threatening the hospital’s future. But in trying to save the hospital, the priest gains personal redemption at the hands of Kath and his flock of outcasts.