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Barabbas
(2000)
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fifteen minute monologue for a man.) |
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| SYNOPSIS |
| What became of the
minor characters in the Gospels whose lives brushed with Jesus? Part
of a TV series for Easter 2000 set in a Victorian house around the
late 1800s. In each room is a Gospel character.
BARABBAS, some thought a thief some a rebel, is
now in his 70s reflecting on what went wrong.
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| EXCERPT |
| 'But him? Thingy ...wadjamacallim …him?
'Loser' I thought to myself. I looked at him as I walked away - born
loser. And the gate clanked and the bar was drawn - horrible sounds
if you're going in - clank! That's it! Sentence! Doom! Clank! But
I was going out and … I mean … I had to look back. Something
made me look back. There he was, hands on the cell bar, his face between.
Loser. A definite loser. I felt sorry for him. And to make it worse
- he spoke. Well - not spoke, or if he did he was too far away for
me to hear. But I saw. His lips. They moved. And a little tongue poked
out. Made a 'th' shape. I could read the shape. "Th …Thank
you." To me they gave freedom and to him they gave - God knows
what they gave - but he said "Thank you." I mean …
two Jew boys… had it in for both of us…' |
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