Jonathan Harvey’s new play could make even the least pious nun clutch her rosary beads; it’s overflowing with enough innuendo to trigger a biblical plague. Instead of springing out of the dialogue with wit and surprise, it comes bounding up to clobber us over the head. “My rusty gates are wide open,” declares one character. “Just make sure your legs aren’t,” adds another, just to be sure.
It also has enough plot to fill a testament or two. When Sister Petra Pottymouth decides to locate her long-lost twin sister, Eileen, she finds her in prison for a crime she didn’t commit. Eileen’s husband’s twin brother, Ziggy, let her take the fall, and is now on the trail of the gold their father stole from the convent and hid with a riddle. Petra plans a heist with her friend, Sister Fionola Foghorn (Keddy Sutton in the slow sidekick role), to extract a confession and reclaim the loot.
