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The rehearsals

Sharov, VladimirReady, Oliver(Translated by)
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New Jerusalem Monastery, 17th-century Moscow. Patriarch Nikon has instructed an itinerant French dramatist to stage the New Testament and hasten the Second Coming.

But this will be a strange form of theatre. The actors are untrained, illiterate Russian peasants, and nobody is allowed to play Christ.

They are persecuted, arrested, displaced, and ultimately replaced by their own children.

Yet the rehearsals continue.

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Product Details
Dedalus Limited
1910213616 / 9781910213612
eBook (EPUB)
891.735
26/01/2018
England
English
Historic novels
359 pages
Copy: 20%; print: 20%
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