‘Abomination’ disguised as theatre

Re: Book of Mormon will make you a theatre believer, Sept. 15

The Book of Mormon is a travesty that should have died in rep, let alone been feted on Broadway, the West End and now on tour across the continent. Its “relentlessly clever, utterly irreverent and unapologetically profane satire on the Mormon religion” is slickly thoughtless, stupidly insulting and look-how-many-bad-words-I-can-say-Mommy toilet humour. It has nothing to do with satire and everything to do with today’s cultural zeitgeist of spitting on everything that aspires to be beautiful and good, replacing it with catering to our basest instincts.

I saw it in London and despaired at the waste of $300 for tickets, then regretted I didn’t walk out. For the record, I’m not Mormon, but if I were, I would not have been a “good sport” about this abomination masquerading as theatre.

Bevelyn MacLise Park, Calgary