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The most famous conversion in history — when Saul became Paul on the road to Damascus — was a trick. It was actually Jesus appearing to him. Jesus did not die on the cross but was rescued and sheltered by his brother James, by Peter and by Peter’s wife, Mary Magdalene. Howard Brenton once said that theatre should be like ‘throwing a petrol bomb into the auditorium’. His new play,
Paul looks set to restore his reputation as a controversialist. That said,
Paul is a bold and deeply serious piece of work that succeeds in re-animating stories and events that have become stale with familiarity.
Cast : 8M, 1F
Nick Hern Books | 978-1-85459-886-8 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
Author
HOWARD
BRENTON’S
plays
include
Anne Boleyn,
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists,
Never So Good, I
n
Extremis, an adaptation of Goethe’s
Faust,
Paul and
Berlin Bertie – all
published by NHB. Other plays include a version of
Danton’s Death,
The Romans
in Britain,
Pravda and
Weapons of Happiness. Brenton was also one of the core
writers on the BBC’s BAFTA -winning espionage series
Spooks.
By Howard Brenton, available through Currency Press - see all
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