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Father Joe Devlin Project
Being Planned

Foreign Language Adaptations

Former QVTC president Gary Laidlaw and Current QVTC Vice-President G. C. Davis are in the planning stages of a project about Fr. James Joseph "Joe" Devlin, known to many as "The Boat People's Priest" and his life and work among the Vietnamese people during the Viet Nam war, in Freedom City refugee camp in Camp Pendleton, the Boat People camps Songkhla and Sekieu in Thailand, and here in the South Bay area. The presentation will be a combination Readers' Theatre, dramatic, and media formats. One actor playing Fr. Joe and other actors, some Vietnamese-American, will be playing the different people he knew. The presentation will be bilingual in English and Vietnamese. Most of the presentation will be read by the actor playing Fr. Joe, giving his narrative, and also have letters and testimonies of his life by others Included are short dramatic vignettes of incidents in his life and the lives of the refugees he had touched directly or indirectly.
G.C. Davis, QVTC webmaster has started writing some of these scenes. Click on the button below for the special page about this project.

Other adaptations of "For a Child is Born to Us..." script are in the works and we need volunteer translators to help complete them.
We will provide the script (some of them have the scriptural parts already placed) and the scriptures (if necessary)

We have found a new translator to complete the update of the Viêtnamese script, since the previous translators' schedules no longer permitted them to work on it..

We have unfinished adaptations in progress for the following languages: (Will provide script and scriptures)

	Arabic
	Chinese
	Italian
	Korean
	Polish
	Spanish

Invitation for the following Languages (Will provide script)

	Croatian
	Aramaic (Syriac)
	Japanese
	*Portuguese*

We welcome culturally-based adaptations of this script. (i.e, Peking/Cantonese Opera, Korean Pansori , Latin-American Posada, Japanese Kabuki, Noh, or Yugen etc) .If interested in a culturally-based adaptation, please contact the adapting playwright at stormridersj@yahoo.com

The adapting playwright structured the script in such a way as to make such cultural adaptations possible and still keep the thread of the narrative. The word 'catholic' literally means 'universal.' It is in this spirit that we wish to share the story of the Nativity in a culturally appropriate theatrical form..

Project in Progress

“For a Child is Born to Us...” the story of the Infancy of Christ from the meeting with Zechariah and the angel to the return to the Holy Family to Nazareth, adapted from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. This script is complete and has already being adapted into the Viêtnamese language. This play was adapted from the Douay-Rheims Bible and scripts with the King James and American Standard Versions are being updated to match the Douay version.

This script is a short one-act that can be played in halls, chapels and other small venues, ideal for either pre-service or post service performances during the Advent and Christmas Seasons. It can also work for traveling ensemble groups due to the minimal set requirements. The set pieces can be removed from the stage as the scene ends or transitions to a sub-scene.

UPDATE: Adaptation of "For a Child is Born to Us..." for Readers' Theatre* Completed

A new Readers' Theatre adaptation of "For a Child is Born to Us..." has been completed by its author, G. C. Davis. This Readers' Theatre program will be in a 1940's radio drama format, complete with optional secret message and a true-to-life radio bulletin. The reason, G.C. says, is that this format requires little preparation by the actors and can be booked quickly. This format for Readers' Theatre proved successful for Arclight Repertory Theatre when they used it for their reading of Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

Due in part to the successful readings of "The Case of Humanity vs. Pontius Pilate," it is hoped that this play will be read during the Advent and Christmas seasons through to Epiphany.

Stay tuned to "KQVT Radio Theatre!"

*Readers' Theatre: A format where actors read the script while performing.