Pentecost (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Edgar
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Plot: Political
- Time of Work: 1989 to the early 1990’s
- Setting: An unnamed southeast European country, presumably Bosnia Herzegovina
- Principal Characters: Gabriella Pecs, Dr. Oliver Davenport, Mikhail Czaba, Leo Katz, Anna Jedlikova, Yasmin
- Genres: Drama, Political drama
- Subjects: Language or languages, Communism or communists, Politics, Twentieth century, Art or artists, Religion, Painting or painters, Captivity, Clergy, Humanism, Christ figures or saviors, Eastern Europe or eastern Europeans, Totalitarianism, Priests, Hostages or hostage taking, Church or churches, Balkans
- Locales: Bosnia
The Play
In an abandoned Romanesque church in an unnamed Balkan country (presumably Bosnia Herzegovina) Gabriella Pecs shows Dr. Oliver Davenport a lamentation fresco said to date from the early thirteenth century. She tells him how she has tracked it down by following the story of its provenance as it is set out in the (fictional) “Old Nagolitic” national epic (c. 1215). A foreign traveler headed for Persia is captured by villagers and threatened with death but saves his skin by offering to paint on their church wall the famous scene of the Virgin and Christ’s followers...
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