And a performing Sayers is suited for the postmodernist stage where Downing puts her among assorted, current theorists and critics. A performing Sayers is an artist, Christian, and thinker who holds together tradition and change, uncertainty and faith, and creativity and discipline.
'Under the trope of 'performance,' Downing deploys a Sayers that is as versatile, elusive, and intriguing as its original must have been.
