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About RHAPSODIC THEATRE
Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
Good Living and Childhood Dreams
Saint Pope John Paul II loved Marian devotions as a child.
Mass was a loving experience with gestures and meaning.
Pope Saint John Paul II
worked in a quarry,
and thought about God,
and about acting man.
Our Story
We are people
of the Books of Scripture.
We are storytellers.
We were created in the image of God, and God lives inside each person.
Abraham is our true ancestor in faith.
Meet People In The Bible Through Prayer
From Karol Wojtyla's
dramatic play, "Job":
"But let not my will, Lord,
But let Your Will be done.
I now see revealed
what I asked, what I demanded
in sinful words and complaints.
He is the Judge who will try me;
He whom I called is coming.
What is my suffering, O Lord,
since my Redeemer lives."
What happened to Job, whom we love so much?
He suffered, and he lived also a new life, friends.
And this is an early play Karol Wojtyla wrote.
Let's think about Poland before 1940, y'all.
The Rhapsodic Theatre emerged as a clandestine movement in Krakow,
during the second world war.
The objective was to glorify God, and to preserve Polish literature and culture.
Artists would meet in homes, and recite poetry,
and new works also.
There were minimal sets and emphasis on,
“Theatre of the Word.”
Gestures were given, after prayer and contemplation.
We know of,
6 plays, that
Pope Saint John Paul II
wrote, thank God,
while living.
5 are existing, in print, today, including,
"Job" and "Jeremiah,"
and Wojtyla also wrote,
"Our God's Brother," and
"Radiation of Fatherhood."
We have a printed book,
from University of California Press,
with a copyright date,
of 1987, which includes,
English translations,
of all 5 plays,
in addition to, essays
about the art of drama,
written by Karol Wojytla.
"David" is not existing in textual form today.
In 1960, while a Bishop,
in Poland, Wojtyla wrote,
"The Jeweler's Shop,"
a beautiful three-act play, about the sacrament of marriage.
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