For today.

To that end, Donohoe has reworked the scenario of Mass, which has a text based on the liturgy of the Roman Mass with additions by Godspell author Stephen Schwartz. The original story focused on one lead character, the Celebrant of the Mass in question, and his reconciliation with the Catholic Church after a crisis of faith that climaxes with his sacrilegious destruction of the sanctified Host — in Catholicism, literally the body of Christ.

“I’ve de-emphasized the actual process of the Mass without changing the text at all,” he said. In this Mass according to Donohoe, the role of the Celebrant has been divided among four students, two female and two male.

“When the men and women arrive and introduce themselves to each other, the men hit it off and the women hit it off,” he explained.