The Tidings Brought to Mary

The Blackfriars Repertory Theater and The Storm Theater present a special benefit performance of the play by Paul Claudel

“The theme of The Tidings Brought to Mary can be defined like this: love is the generator of the human person according to its total dimension; that is to say, love is the generator of each person’s story in that it generates a people.” – Fr. Luigi Giussani

"Tidings Brought to Mary" gets to the heart of existence. That's what theatre or any art should do, to get down to the crucible, to the center of it all. And what is the essence of being human? The essence of being human is to love, and you are most human when you love to the greatest possible capacity. This play clearly illustrates that. If we are to love, really love, then there is no way that that does not come with suffering. It comes hand in hand. There is no way, if you really love, that you can escape the cross. It is inescapable. But what the play illustrates is that if you keep loving and allow the attending suffering as something that is unavoidable and a by-product of that love, then there is a redemptive, transcendent, life-giving power that is unleashed, that transforms everything, that can bring the dead back to life. God doesn't love us according to what we deserve, but according to his own honor. In this play Claudel explores the architecture of salvation and the mechanics of grace.

Read the introduction by Luigi Giussani.

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