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Bread, Fish and Dancing

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By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Three plays about the feeding of the five thousand and the personal and political fallout from this extraordinary event.

By Sebastian Baczkiewicz

Three plays about the feeding of the five thousand and the personal and political fallout from this extraordinary event. Is it a political act? A rebellion? A festival? Five thousand people are dancing on the hillside. What do they want? How can the state deal with those who seek to threaten it? Is Rome going to react to these events? Who can make sense of the impossible?

Episode One – Bread, Fish and Dancing

In Herod’s palace suspicion is rife, young people have gone missing and Salome is in meltdown following an extraordinary murder.

Gaius ….. Robin Laing
Matt/Zachary ….. Stuart McQuarrie
Dan ….. Andy Clark
Sarah ….. Maggie Service
Herod ….. Robert Jack
Asher ….. Michael Moreland
Salome ….. Hiftu Quasem
Herodius ….. Nicole Cooper
Joe-Joe ….. Kyle Gardiner

Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane

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Mon 14 Nov 2022 14:15

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