Good Friday Revisited: A trilogy of dramas set against the backdrop of the first Good Friday. - Softcover

Walsh, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1506186076 ISBN 13: 9781506186078

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

In which the central character is constantly referred to but never seen... Three different takes on the the passion narrative according to Matthew... different dramas set against the backdrop of the first Good Friday... AT THE PRAETORIUM/PILATE UNDER PRESSURE: centres on the dungeons beneath the Roman fortress where three prisoners await execution; and on Pontius Pilate, the Roman Governor, the Coloniser caught in a dilemma... VEIL: centres on a family in Jerusalem on Good Friday and how the Passion of Jesus impacts on their lives... CONCLAVE: at the Sanhedrin, behind closed doors, men meet to plan, plot how best to protect their status quo, see off the danger to their very livelihood posed by this stranger from the North, from Galilee - Jesus of Nazareth...

About this title

About the Author:

Sean Walsh has lived and worked in communications all his life: journalist, subeditor, editor, director, producer, preacher, dramatist... A former Head of Radio Drama, RTE, radio was - and is - his first love. His plays have been broadcast on RTE One; on BBC 4; and - in translation - on European networks... screened on RTE TV, on BBC One and Channel 4... staged at the Abbey National theatre ( the Peacock), the Project Arts Centre (Dublin), the Liverpool playhouse; and on the London fringe... www.sean-walsh.me

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1506186076
• ISBN 13: 9781506186078
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304