
Once a Catholic
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Mary O'Malley’s biting British farcical comedy 'Once a Catholic' completed a celebrated original Broadway premiere at the Helen Hayes Theatre in 1979, running for an accomplished commercial residency following its hit West End run. The fast-paced, textually rich comedy-drama unfolds inside a strict, conservative Catholic convent girls' school in North London in 1957, tracking three teenage schoolgirls—all named Mary—as their adolescent romantic awakenings and changing social values collide into a hilarious farcical panic with the rigid domestic cages and religious metrics of the nuns. Directed by Mike Ockrent.

