'Abdication' echoes with tough questions

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: November 4, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

THE ABDICATION, Jewett Center, Westminster College, through Nov. 12 (832-2455). Running time: two hours, 10 minutes (one intermission).

"I want to feel his call again, in innocence," cries Cardinal Azzolino. His longing to be close to God echoes through the Lees Courage Theater at Westminster College. It echoes down the years, as well.

In "The Abdication," playwright Ruth Wolff writes of an event that took place in Rome in 1655. Queen Christina of Sweden, whose father had turned their country Protestant, actually did renounce her religion and her throne. Christina gave her crown to her cousin, ...

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