"I would be surprised if people bothered to protest outside the New Theatre … but if they did, bring it on," Rowney said. The play's director, Leigh Rowney, is unrepentant. It's just completely fanciful and self-obsessive," she said. "The ideas are offensive and really border on blasphemous. Life's too short."Īustralian Family Association spokeswoman Angela Conway said the play's creators had committed "a big enough crime" by neglecting to treat Christianity and Christian believers with more sensitivity. "It's historical nonsense and I wouldn't want to go and see it.
"It is deliberately, not innocently, offensive and they're obviously having a laugh about it," he said. The Anglican Bishop of South Sydney, Robert Forsyth, questioned the integrity of Corpus Christi and expressed his outrage at the "unhistorical and untrue" depiction of the son of God and some of his disciples as homosexual. It has sent squads of black-clad members to intimidate foreign peddlers at open-air markets, has publicly intimidated political opponents, and is believed to be behind an escalating campaign of migrant beatings around the country.Ī PLAY that depicts Jesus as a gay man who is seduced by Judas and conducts a gay marriage for two apostles has been condemned by religious leaders as it prepares to open in Sydney. Once on the fringe of Greek society, Golden Dawn has been flexing its muscles after picking up over 400,000 votes in recent elections on the back of immigration and crime fears. "The Golden Dawn members twisted the doors so the actors could not get out, and to keep us from getting in," he told Mega channel. "It was a night of terror," said writer Petros Tatsopoulos, a lawmaker for the main opposition radical leftist party Syriza. The play's director Laertis Vassiliou was born in Albania. "This is a blasphemous play," lawmaker Ilias Panagiotaros told reporters, later unleashing a foul-mouthed tirade against Albanians and homosexuals. The neo-Nazi group Golden Dawn had sent several members, including some of its lawmakers, to block the doors of the theatre and turn away spectators on Thursday. Originally staged in New York in 1998, Corpus Christi by Terrence McNally depicts Jesus and the Apostles as gay men living in modern-day Texas. Police late on Friday briefly detained over 30 people outside an Athens theatre where the play Corpus Christi was playing, who were seeking to have the show banned. An American play portraying Jesus Christ as homosexual has set the scene for new tension in Greece between a resurgent neo-Nazi group and rights proponents who accuse its members of intimidation.
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