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THE CONFESSION
Tonight will be the last of the William Anderson dramatic season at the Tivoli Theatre, the production being James Hilleck Keid’s powerful drama, “The Confession”. The chief theme of the play is the secrecy of the confessional, and the agony of mind endured by a priest, who, having heard a confession of a murderer, has to stand aside.
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Edna attempted to breathe evenly, trying to control the shaking. Her joints screamed and cramped. She’d been bound for hours now, incapacitated as much by terror as by the ropes knotted tightly into her flesh. The small confessional was airless. It was black—she could see nothing but she was aware of the knife. He pressed it against her cheek occasionally to remind her, swearing he’d cut her face first if she made a sound.
