In the second act of the play in which this character appears, she claims to have 26 siblings, after which she sings "Ave Maria" while bathed in blue light.  
In the second act of the play in which this character appears, she claims to have 26 siblings, after which she sings "Ave Maria" while bathed in blue light.  Her lecture in the first act of the play is often interrupted by personal digressions and requests of the seven-year-old Thomas to bring water and cookies.  At the play's end, this character forces Aloysius to read catechism questions at gunpoint, ignoring his repeated requests to urinate. Previously, this character had killed a gay man named Gary Sullavan because he had "cleansed his soul" at confession, and also shot and killed a woman who had undergone two abortions and became combative about this character's parochial school teaching method, Diane Symonds.  FTP, name this title character, a nun who "explains it all for you" in a work by Christopher Durang.
In the second act of the play in which this character appears, she claims to have 26 siblings, after which she sings "Ave Maria" while bathed in blue light.  
Sister {Mary Ignatius} (Explains It All for You) (6) [AH]