The Silversmith’s Shop

This coming weekend, the MLP headquarters will be the unlikely host of a play written by the late Pope John Paul called The Silversmith's Shop. The play, translated by Oliver Friggieri and directed by Reuben Gauci, is rooted in post-Nazi regime Poland. From the Independent:

Although this may still not be known by some, Karol Wojtyla was one of the founders of The Rhapsodiac Theatre – a secret theatre born amid an active policy towards the annihilation of Polish culture by the Nazi regime.

The one-act play, called The Silversmith’s Shop, (Il-Hanut ta’ l-Argentier) was written under a pseudonym by the late pope in 1960 when he was Bishop of Krakow. In it Wojtyla explores the theme of love and concludes that “Love is no adventure. It has its own specific burden.” To Wojtyla, real love is not relative. The Silversmith’s Shop was translated into Maltese by Prof. Oliver Friggieri in 1981...

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