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Agnes of God is a 1979 play by American playwright John Pielmeier which tells the story of a novice nun who gives birth but does not believe she has. After the child is found dead, a psychiatrist and the mother superior of the convent clash during the resulting investigation. The title is a pun on the Latin phrase Agnus Dei ("lamb of God").
Agnes of God is a 1985 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly. It was written by John Pielmeier , based on his 1979 play of the same name .
Three years later, Agnes of God was performed in a staged reading at the O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference in Waterford, Connecticut and won the 1979 Great American Play Contest. A full production was mounted for the Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 1980, and the Broadway production opened in ...
The film is 20 years later, when the loosely inspired couple find themselves at odds over Portman’s character, an actor set to play the former teacher in an upcoming biopic about their lives ...
The primary character in the play is Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra.She descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. She meets about 40 characters, some of them having a clearly symbolical value (such as four deans representing theology, philosophy, medicine, and law) and is herself enmeshed in a wrenching marriage.
Meg Tilly (born Margaret Elizabeth Chan on February 14, 1960) [1] is an American-Canadian actress and writer. [2]For her role in the 1985 film Agnes of God, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Geraldine Page – Agnes of God as Mother Miriam Ruth; Amanda Plummer – A Taste of Honey as Josephine; Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical; Ben Harney – Dreamgirls as Curtis Taylor Jr. Herschel Bernardi – Fiddler on the Roof as Tevye; Victor Garber – Little Me as Various ...
For “Agnes,” something tragic had happened to her son, Nicholas Scratch, prompting her to be a workaholic. In the comics, Agatha does have a son named Nicholas Scratch, whom she abandoned in ...