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The Mendocino Theatre Company is thrilled to announce its highly anticipated 2024 season, featuring a captivating selection of plays that promises to entertain, inspire, and provoke thought.
In the 1965 film, “A Thousand Clowns,” Jason Robards plays Murray Burns, an eccentric comedy writer whose unemployed status threatens his legal custody of his 12-year-old nephew. In one of the key lines from the film about his hopes for his nephew’s independence in a conforming society, he concludes: “I want him to know the subtle, sneaky, important reason why he was born a human being and not a chair.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thousand_Clowns
If this seems an odd way to back into today’s commemoration of “The Chair of St. Peter the Apostle,” it is also an affirmation that the mystery of the church is much more than a piece of furniture or even a metaphorical stone on which the authority of the pope as head of the apostolic leadership and succession rests. These symbols are part of the institutional claims for the primacy of Peter and Rome often contested historically when Christianity emerged as a world religion.