Rev. George Drance, S.J., Sp ’84, will present “The Gospel of Mark in Performance,” a solo show telling the story of Mark’s Gospel, with two performances at the Evan and Marion P. Helfaer Theatre, Sept. 18-19. Each day’s performance will be held at 4:30 p.m.
“The Gospel of Mark in Performance” seeks to reclaim the original power and urgency of this message, by telling the story as the early Christians might have told it — in underground meetings running from the empire’s forces.
With music composed by Elizabeth Swados, the stories of the Gospel span time and space to bring a contemporary audience back into the spirit of this ancient text. Drance originally performed this in 2014 at the world famous La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.
The performances are sponsored by the Marquette Jesuit community, free and open to the public.
Drance has performed and directed in over 25 countries on five continents, serving such companies as Teatro la fragua in Honduras and Kenya’s Theatre YETU. He is the artistic director of the acclaimed Magis Theatre Company, praised by the New York Times for its artistic skill and daring, and serves as Artist-in-Residence at Fordham University.
Other acting credits include ETC, The Metropolitan Opera, The Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival, American Repertory Theater and Ralph Lee’s Mettawee River Company. He has been on the faculty of the Marist International Center in Nairobi, Kenya, and at Red Cloud High School on the land of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Television credits include “The Blacklist” and “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.”
