Swede adapts entire Bible for the stage
Published: 16 Feb 12 16:46 CET | Print version
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A play based on the entire Bible will premiere in Sweden this week in what the playwright said Thursday will be the world's first attempt to adapt both the Old and New Testaments to the stage.
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"I know Max Reinhardt put up the Old Testament on Broadway in 1936 (The Eternal Road), but we have searched for others who have done both the Old and New Testaments, and found no examples," he told AFP, adding: "We seem to be the first."
With 15 actors, three musicians and two extras on stage interpreting around 90 different roles during the four hour and 40 minute play, Rådström said he had struggled to draw a continuous storyline from the material.
"This is not just a book, but an entire library of books ... and the different parts often seemed like they were trying to push and pull us in different directions. It hasn't been easy," he said.
When writing the play, Rådström said he had tried to "ignore the past 2,000 years of interpretation history and go straight to the Bible texts, the stories inside."
It was also important, he said, to approach the material in a serious manner without irony, out of respect for both believers and non-believers, and to interpret it "so it becomes meaningful and relevant to us today."
"I hope to de-dramatize the conflict often seen between the secular and the holy. The Bible is relevant to everybody" in traditionally Christian cultures, Rådström said, adding he had yet to see any signs the play would give rise to controversy.
The play will show at the Stadsteater several times a week through May 8th.
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You might refer to Genesis 19, but the text doesn't say what you suggest, instead, Lot's daughters come up with the idea themselves.
Which Bible did you read?
It was way too long and the actors were screaming so you couldn't hear a thing they were saying. It didn't get better with the two idiots behind talking throughout the whole thing.
Anyway, they should have made it a lot shorter. The talking lady with the salt should have been on for max 5 min instead of 15 and the play needed better flow. Sure, it's the Bible, but even the parts which were connected took all my brainpower to figure out. And that wasn't enough.
According to the Jewish bible, Genesis19:30-38. Lot went up from Zoar(means connected with a little place) and settled in the hill country with his two daughters, for he was afraid to dwell in Zoar; and he and his two daughters lived in a cave. And the older one said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to consort with us in the ways of the world. Come let us make our father drink wine, and let us lie with him, that we may maintain our life through our father." That night they made their father drink wine and older one went in and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she rose. The next day the older one said to the younger, "See, I lay with father last night;let us make him drink wine tonight also, and you go and lie with him, that we may maintain life through our father. That night also they made their father drink wine and the younger one went and lay with him. He did not know when she lay with him or when she rose.
Thus the two daughters of Lot came to be with child by their father. The older one bore a son and called him Moab(means from my father), he is the father of the Moabites of today. And the younger also bore a son , and she called him Ben Ammi (means son of my paternal kindred), he is the father of the Ammonites today.
Remember this is after Sodom and Gemorrah were demolished.
Now you have the story, please continue....
Make a play about Christianity - one thing.
Do the same for Islam - something totally different.