Thanks to Father Jim Heneghan from the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish for letting us reprint his letter below!

"Jason,

I saw the preview performance last evening of "The Busy World is Hushed." I found it to be very provocative and troubling as these three characters sorted out their own personal journeys to find some inner connection and personal peace, I have thought about the play since I left the theatre last night, we talked about it all the way home. There were parts of each character that were both very revealing and very loathsome, however, their dance of intimacy and manipulation was incredibly powerful and painful to watch.

In some way, this weekend's scripture is the story of "The Prodigal Son," and I can not stop thinking of this template for the play... each is prodigal for some reason... and seeking to return to a sense of love and acceptance after their own personal journey of pain and power... yet their weaknesses were very visible and vibrantly portrayed.

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The play has stirred a lot within me about truth, faith, relationship and love... but the longing and hunger that we all seek in some connection to something greater than ourselves...whether it is a faith based "ghost" filling the guilty void for Hannah, a sense of self that is longing to be discovered as for Thomas or a sense of intimacy which is given from a family but shattered to be reformed with death as for Brandt. It was an incredible play of substantial performances and I can not say I "enjoyed" it in a traditional way, but it was a play that has stayed with me throughout the evening and the day.

Great theatre leaves one with questions and glimmers into the soul of the heart...

'The Busy World is Hushed" has this power and provocative nature and I was so grateful to have seen this prior to the opening... it is interesting to have a "clean slate" without a critic interpretation. I was grateful to see the play and even more grateful for the questions and concerns it has evoked within me. It is a powerful evening and a well done, well acted and well performed... thank you."

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