Mark Taper Forum The auditorium was renamed the Amelia Taper Auditorium after a $2 million gift from the S. Mark Taper Foundation. The Taper has presented innovative plays since its 1967-opening of "The Devils" from playwright John Whiting about the sexual fantasies of a 17th-century priest and a sexually repressed nun. The play received a great deal of protest from local religious leaders and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, although the production continued. The production of such plays as "Murderous Angels", "The Dream on Monkey Mountain", "Children of a Lesser God", "Savages", "The Shadow Box", "The Kentucky Cycle" and "Angels in
Requiem for a Nun And I met him, too. I ran into him at a dinner party." In 2013, the judge dismissed Faulkner Literary Rights LLC's claim, ruling that the use of the quote in the film was "de minimis" and constituted "fair use". The novel was dramatized for the theater in 1956 by Albert Camus, entitled "Requiem pour une nonne". Camus also wrote the preface to the 1957 French translation of the novel by Maurice Coindreau. The novel was a co-source for the 1961 film "Sanctuary". Requiem for a Nun Requiem for a Nun is a work of fiction written by William Faulkner