The earliest of these plays took place in churches rather than in theaters, with the priests and monks acting out Bible stories.
Bird noticed that her old acting teacher, a Zen monk named Tom Radcliffe, had posted on Facebook saying he was going to raise £1,000, get in his car and drive to the refugee camp in Calais.
On Monday, Information Minister Kyaw Hsan belittled the protests as the work of a few agitators and dissident monks who were acting with the support of foreign powers.
Of late he had been acting erratically; some of the older monks whispered that he had been muttering obscenities in Latin.
Nopparat said the monks in the video were acting "inappropriately, not composed and not adhering to Buddha's teachings of simplicity and self-restraint".
Private relief operations by Mr. Maung Thura and Buddhist monks, who said they were acting partly because the government was not doing enough, were widely seen here as a rebuke to the ruling generals.
Saigon's Military Governor said he had asked acting Foreign Minister Truong Cong Chu to demand the United States surrender the monks.
Generally regarded as a nonentity, Thein Sein had been the acting Prime Minister when the government opened fire on the monks, in 2007.
Exhibiting self-deprecation rather than ego, his grasp of the totality of film-making led Schneider to invoke the Benedectine monks in appreciating "a symphony of equality that includes cinematic language, screenwriting, acting, editing, music, production design..
He was acting prime minister during the so-called Saffron Revolution in 2007, an uprising led by Buddhist monks that was violently suppressed.
