Hopkins is fantastic and the show is good fun, particularly in her repeated pious assertion, "I'm an artist".
Pious and instructional works abound.
There Robert Michael Patrick Gaffneyy) meets a painstakingly selected cast of eccentrics: a chatty, pious landlady, a profane and cynical artist and a mysterious woman who claims to have known him in the past.
And the director's note also offers an earnest defense of the play (which is, to remind you, about a rich man in the thrall of a con artist posing as a pious man of God) as anti-fanatic, not as anti-religious or anti-Catholic.
"I don't want to sound pious, but I believe in the quality of these artists.
He was one of the first artists to try and meet the new, pious criteria for religious art set out by the Council of Trent, which redefined Catholic faith in the face of the Protestant reformation.
And it is hard to believe that in, say, quattrocento Florence, an epoch so liberated in its sexual mores — Fra Filippo Lippi, for example, lived openly with a defrocked nun, whom he used as a model for his Madonnas — artists could resist being simultaneously worldly and pious.
Shortlisted for the Beck's Futures award in 2000, Shrigley has been called a religious artist, but it's hard to say whether pious thoughts inspired such captions as: 'Good-0, Evil-0, after extra time (Evil wins 5-4 on penalties).' Mark Titchner You've seen Titchner's work before - at least, the constituent parts, if not the whole.
"Artists both on stage and in the media make pious comments about 'peace' and 'coexistence', whilst hinting that the occupied and occupier should 'live side by side'.
