This Tuesday Michael Hale
inspired us to read his own original translation of Racine's play
ESTHER , faithfully based upon the Old Testament book of thae title.
What a moving, heart-rendering and thought-provoking time we had. The
context, of course, being the threat of extermination of the complete Jewish
race, then in exile and slavery in Syria. As in the O.T. book, Racine conveys
many unexpected twists in the plot and outcome.... with great prayer and trust
being placed in the Hebrew God of the Old Testament- and now of course seen
through Christian perspectives, both then in the 17th Century when the play was
written and today
MORE GOOD NEWS! We're
carrying on reading the play to finish it at our next play-reading session,
which, please note, will be on May 27th (not June 2rd this time) at 7.30 for
7.45pm prompt at the Methodist Church, Sandgate Rd. We look forward to seeing
you all at this and all our Tuesday evening sessions, details of which you
can see in our scheduled programme and planning. Roger Smith
(Chair).
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