THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Mike Paulson
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| Roy Cockrum, left, the producer of “The Glory of the World,” with the director Les Waters, center, and the playwright Charles Mee. Josh Haner/The New York Times |
An unusual stew of ingredients, some onstage and some off, has resulted in this strange spectacle’s move from Kentucky to the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, which, beginning Saturday, Jan. 16, will present “
The Glory of the World,” a new play by
Charles Mee that takes a silence-and-strife-filled look at the life of
Thomas Merton, the 20th-century American Catholic thinker who “remains a source of spiritual inspiration and a guide for many people,” as Pope Francis put it in an unexpected shout-out during his address to Congress in September. [
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| Cast members |
