The Ithaca College Protestant Community presents Al Staggs as he brings to life one of the great heroes of the 20th century, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
The event, part of the George Clarkson Lecture Series, was originally scheduled in the spring but had to be canceled due to weather.
In this one-man play the audience is brought into the prison cell where Bonhoeffer, who awaits execution, struggles with evil, injustice, and God. He expresses his outrage against the Nazi treatment of the Jews and his anger which had led him to become involved in the German resistance movement. This commitment would result in his being executed just days before Berlin fell at the end of World War II.
Bill Moyers has said of this performance, “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.”
Admission is free, and there are two opportunities to see “The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer”:
Saturday, September 29, 7:30 p.m.
Park Auditorium
Roy H. Park School of Communications
Sunday, September 30, 3:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
315 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca
For more information, call 607-274-3103.
