WHERE NO STORMS COME
Written by Connor Kerns
A NUN TAKES THE VEIL
I HAVE desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow,
And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.
--Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard and Margaret in "Storms"
"One of the strengths of the play is the way in which Kerns includes Hopkins' poems, often repeatedly until the meaning starts to unfold. That the audience starts to get an inkling about its intent is an achievement, realized in part by Henry's fine acting and JoAnn Johnson's direction."
--The Oregonian
