SLU, Aquinas Institute to Host One-Woman Play About Dorothy Day's Life

The one-woman play is 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4, in Anheuser-Busch auditorium in Cook Hall. Admission is free.

Melici, a stage, film and television actress, now performs exclusively in her role as Dorothy Day at theaters throughout the United States. She has heard from audience members that seeing the performance has changed their lives; it has changed hers as well.

“It has been and I am confident will continue to be an extraordinary journey,” she said.

Day devoted her adult life to pursuing social justice, peace and civil rights. She co-founded the Catholic Worker movement in 1933, which fed the unemployed of New York City during the Great Depression and published The Catholic Worker newspaper. Day died in 1980. She was 83.

Her work continues today in St. Louis, where members of the movement live and work at Karen House, a community for women and children in need.

The event is co-sponsored by Aquinas Institute of Theology and SLU’s VOICES Project and Theology Club. Find out more about Fool for Christ at www.foolforchrist.com. For details about the event at SLU, contact the VOICES Project: 314.977.2363.

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