Pentecost
Pentecost Author: David Edgar
First Performance: Stratford-upon-Avon, 1994
Published: 1995
Genre: Drama in 2 acts; mainly English, also some Russian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Azeri, prose
Setting: Church in unnamed south-east European country, 1990s
Cast: 18m, 12f, extras
In an abandoned Romanesque church, which has been used as prison, warehouse, and museum, the art curator Gabriella Pecs has discovered a unique 13th-century fresco. She shows her find to Oliver Davenport, a British art historian, and they persuade the Minister of Culture to authorize restoration work. Professor Leo Katz of Cornell University flies in, and a former dissident Anna Jedlikova, now a magistrate, is called upon to rule on the ownership and fate of the fresco. Leo persuades ‘the court’ that the fresco is probably a 14th-century copy,...
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