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This play is a re-working of the Job story from the Bible. It brings the well-known Old Testament tale and combines it with the New Testament story of Jesus: where the biblical Job gets left on a dung-hill, this Job is impaled on a spit by Roman soldiers in a distortion of a crucifix. Job, who starts off enjoying good health, a large, happy family, and many successful business ventures, quickly gets knocked off his perch. A series of ever-worsening bad news leaves him entirely divested of prosperity and family, no better than the many beggars who come scavenging bits and scraps from his table. As he gets assailed by plagues, his faith in God is challenged, although his Talmudic friends convince him to stay within his religion. However, when Roman soldiers arrive and proclaim a horrible death to whomever refuses to renounce their God, those same friends abandon him in order to save their own lives. Job, of course, will not give up on God and is brutally killed by the Romans. As he is dying, a circus arrives, and the play takes a Fellini-esque turn as the circus folk bargain with Job for his entry into the circus as the star attraction-people will pay a lot to see extreme human suffering.Press Release
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