Chicago's Still Point Theatre Collective presents, "Haunted By God: The Life of Dorothy Day," on Thursday, April 1, at 7 p.m., in the Hamilton College Chapel. The show is sponsored by Hamilton College and Catholic Charities of Utica, and is free and open to the public.
"Haunted By God," a one-woman show about Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was written by Paul Amandes, Lisa Wagner (who also portrays Day), and Robert McClory. The play is directed by Virginia Smith, with costume and set design by Daniel Ostling.
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a powerful woman of immense conviction who found herself jailed many times because she stood up for her beliefs. In New York in 1933, she and French-born itinerant philosopher Peter Maurin co-founded the Catholic Worker, a living movement that has been responsible for feeding and housing the homeless while maintaining a monthly, nationally-read newspaper.
Day spent 47 years living with the poor and challenging the U.S. government to call to halt acts of war. She is known as the "mother of the peace movement" in the U.S. and has influenced such American peacemakers as Daniel Berrigan and Michael Harrington.
For more information, please contact Hamilton College Chaplain Jeff McArn at 859-4130 or Michelle Bennett at 724-2158, Ext. 250
