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View from the Underside:
The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A One-Person Play Adapted and Performed by Al Staggs brings the life of one of the great heroes of the twentieth century to the stage. The audience is brought into the prison cell where Bonhoeffer awaits execution and listens to his struggles with evil, injustice, and God.
In
the play, Bonhoeffer tells of the profound influence of fellow Union Theological
student, Frank Fisher, an African-American friend who introduced Dietrich to the
blight of racism in America.
Prisoner Bonhoeffer expresses moral outrage
against the Nazi treatment of Jews and explains how that outrage led him to
become involved in the German resistance movement, a commitment that would
result in his being executed by hanging on April 9, 1945.
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Ordering information: *A discount price is available for the purchase of both a Bonhoeffer and a Clarence Jordan DVD.
Reviews: "You accomplish ... an astonishing fullness of Dietrich, the personality and the message."
"When I watch Al Staggs as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I am confronted by the deepest moral questions of what it means to be a witness and how I am using my life."
“Staggs’ ability to communicate this awesome, dangerous saint is an enormous gift among us.”
"A stunning disputation of the history of religion, as it is commonly understood."
"Al Staggs’ portrayal of Dietrich Bonhoeffer transforms a remarkable historical figure into a fully realized human being-we are challenged, as a Church, as a community, and as individuals, to examine both what we have done-and what we are leaving undone-to respond to the evil in our own world.”
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