The altar, candles and tabernacle have been put away, replaced by a bare-bones set where the youthful cast of "Stand-Up Tragedy" confront and comfort one another under the gaze of an unblinking Christ.
You can't help wonder at how many tragedies confront people and how you can't predict when, where, and how tragedy will strike.
If China continues to be more concerned with hiding the tragedy than confronting it, then today's Chinese leaders could kill millions of people over the next two decades.
As mundanity mingles with tragedy, we confront the inevitable Popian letdown: Do we care enough?
What we do know is that government officials decided not to inform a lawfully constituted body, created by Congress and the president, to investigate one the greatest tragedies to confront this country.
It stars the New Wave icon Michel Piccoli (from Godard's "Contempt") as an elderly actor of mighty talent and firm principle who — confronting personal tragedy, flagging strength, and rebarbative new working conditions — decides, Candide-style, to cultivate his own garden.
Individuals confronting the tragedy of Alzheimer's disease should consult experienced medical, financial, social and legal professionals.
This week, as more protests are planned, the scope of the tragedy that is arguably confronting the entire country is now setting in.
This resilient community in mourning is engaged in a very specific exercise: confronting the tragedy of Ezra's death directly and unflinchingly, while still celebrating his life, seeking meaning, and lesson from his example.
"The transformation among the children was extraordinary because their self-confidence and skill at confronting their tragedy in this way seemed to liberate their spirits," said UNICEF Communication Officer John Brittain.
