Mary Don't You Weep  Salvation in Rock Harbor's Magdalene  You
don't have to read The DaVinci Code to know that Mary Magdalene
got a raw deal. She's been branded a prostitute, Jesus Christ's
secret wife, the mother of his child, an adultress, a proto-
feminist and a hanger-on.  Two thousand years later, Mary
continues to be a source of inspiration to philosophers,
writers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists. With so little
actually known about her—even the Bible stories she's mentioned
in were written decades and centuries after her death and are
more metaphor than history—any telling of her story ends up
reflecting the individual creator's agenda.  This new musical
about her, Magdalene, uses the same old suppositions, but
employs them to get people talking about male power and the
effects of sexual violence on women. In its West Coast
premiere—staged at Rock Harbor, a local evangelical church—the
production is not without serious flaws, but congrats are in
order to a religious institution for theatricall