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    Unholy
    Unholy
    Unholy
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    Unholy

    By Diane Flacks

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    Should women abandon religion?

    Four female panellists face off in a wild, whip-smart televised debate about the intersection of religion and misogyny. On one side, there’s Maryam, a progressive Muslim lawyer, and Yehudit, an Orthodox Jewish spiritual leader. The other has Liz, a lesbian antitheist pundit, and Margaret, an excommunicated nun. The debaters wrestle with themselves and with each other: Can you be a feminist and believe in religion? What can or can’t be forgiven? Why do we have faith to begin with? Between the arguments, each of the debaters return to a seminal and secret moment in their past that represents a crisis of faith, leading the debate to become more and more personally charged, until it climaxes in an epic battle.

    Unholy delves into the biblical struggles that tear us apart and make us who we are. It’s about having the courage to take the leap in life and into love. What is more holy than that?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPlaywrights Canada Press
    Release dateSep 3, 2019
    ISBN9780369100290
    Unholy
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    Diane Flacks

    Diane Flacks is a writer/actor. Her plays include Bear With Me; Random Acts; Myth Me; Waiting Room; By a Thread; Gravity Calling; Luba, Simply, Luba and Theory of Relatives, as well as SIBS and Care with Richard Greenblatt. Diane also writes extensively for TV (among others, Working the Engels, Workin’ Moms, Baroness von Sketch Show, Qanurli and Kids in the Hall). She has been the national parenting columnist for CBC Radio, and a contributor to DNTO and Tapestry. She was a feature columnist for the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail. Diane has performed comedy everywhere from New York’s Town Hall to local bars to the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. Her four solo shows have toured nationally and internationally. She is currently developing a one-​person play called Guilt and a play with the Stratford Festival called Blessed. She has numerous acting credits over twenty-​five years in the business, and in 2019 she played Nathan in Nathan the Wise at Stratford.

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      Also by Diane Flacks

      Bear With Me: What They Don’t Tell You About Pregnancy and New Motherhood

      Luba, Simply, Luba

      SIBS (with Richard Greenblatt)

      Waiting Room

      Unholy

      Diane Flacks

      Playwrights Canada Press

      Toronto

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      Title: Unholy / Diane Flacks.

      Names: Flacks, Diane, author.

      Description: A play.

      Identifiers: Canadiana (print)

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      million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country — the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), Ontario Creates, and the Government of Canada for our publishing activities.

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      To my parents, Lily and Cy Flacks, who sent me to thirteen years of Hebrew school and worried that it might have been a waste. To my children, Eli and Jonny Purdy-Flacks, whose questions launched me toward this play. To Janis Purdy, who championed my creative deep dives through the years, and to Tommie-Amber Pirie, who answered the question, If not god, then what do we worship?

      Contents

      Preface

      Characters

      Unholy

      The Elevator

      The Debate

      Yehudit’s Sister’s Wedding

      The Debate

      Margaret’s Office at the Catholic Hospital

      The Hotel Room

      The Debate

      The Hotel Room

      The Debate

      Margaret’s Office at the Catholic Hospital

      The Debate

      Yehudit’s Sister’s Wedding

      The Hotel Room

      Margaret’s Office at the Catholic Hospital

      The Debate

      Margaret Alone

      The Hotel Room

      The Debate

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Landmarks

      Cover

      Title

      Copyright Page

      Dedication

      Start of Text

      Table of Contents

      Preface

      Unholy

      The Elevator

      The Debate

      Yehudit’s Sister’s Wedding

      The Debate

      Margaret’s Office at the Catholic Hospital

      The Hotel Room

      The Debate

      The Hotel Room

      The Debate

      Margaret’s Office at the Catholic Hospital

      The Debate

      Yehudit’s Sister’s Wedding

      The Hotel Room

      Margaret’s Office at the Catholic Hospital

      The Debate

      Margaret Alone

      The Hotel Room

      The Debate

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

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      Preface

      Life imitates art imitates life. When I approached Kelly Thornton, then artistic director of Nightwood Theatre, about the idea of a play about misogyny and religion set in a debate, I couldn’t have dreamt up Trump’s Muslim ban, the Quebec mosque and Pittsburgh synagogue shootings, Brett Kavanaugh or #MeToo. I wanted to write a play about subjects that consumed and outraged me since a rabbi refused to shake my hand at Hebrew school and since my own children started asking pointed questions about god, love, suffering and violence. By the time Unholy premiered in 2017, the intersection of misogyny and religion had become hauntingly present in all our lives. The theatre allowed us all a space to talk. Now, the issues have become even more pressing and, at times, surreal. Hearing and questioning each other’s perspectives, especially those you can’t comprehend, and with which you deeply disagree, is even more vital a task today. The forces of misogyny are even more in need of confrontation than before. I am so grateful to have the chance to do so with the publication of Unholy.

      The choice of a debate as a framework for the play was inspired by a groundbreaking 1989 NFB film about women and faith called Half the Kingdom. The documentary’s synopsis says, "Seven women strive to find common ground between religious and cultural tradition and contemporary feminist

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