Darkness

Book By: Terrell Anthony
Play #: 1590
Pages: 28 pgs
Cast: 3 m, 1 w, 1 flexible

It is the night of Jesus’ crucifixion. His followers (the audience) are in hiding from the authorities. They came to Jerusalem to hail Jesus. Now, they’re confused and frightened. They have become strangers in Jerusalem, the followers … of a dead man. As the audience sits in the dark, they meet Mary Magdalene, a beggar boy, Nicodemus, Simon the Cyrene, and James the disciple. Each of the characters has a unique perspective on Jesus that’s reassuring but challenging.

 

“Darkness” is U-3 — unique, unorthodox, and urgent. 

 

Unique. It’s a Good Friday play, designed to heighten the meaningfulness of Easter.

 

Unorthodox. It’s designed to require little rehearsal as possible.  The characters have little interaction with each other, requiring less full-cast rehearsals. 

 

Urgent. The audience members are treated as if they’re the hiding Jesus followers. Jewish leaders are hunting them. They are in danger and told to get away as the play closes.

 

This play is designed to give new meaning to how dark and desperate it seemed on crucifixion night before the world was changed by a resurrection.

 

 

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Productions

M LALONE INC 1 Performance(s)
MOUNT PLEASANT, MI 3/29/2024
PICKENS VIEW WESLEYAN CHURCH 1 Performance(s)
PICKENS, SC 3/29/2024
CHRIST METHODIST CHURCH 1 Performance(s)
SALISBURY, MD 3/28/2024
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH 1 Performance(s)
KILLEEN, TX 4/9/2023
CALVARY FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH 1 Performance(s)
VIRGIE, KY 4/9/2023
EVANGEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD 1 Performance(s)
WILBRAHAM, MA 4/7/2023
NEW DIMENSIONS FAMILY MINISTRIES 1 Performance(s)
SALISBURY, MD 4/7/2023
HOMERZELLE GENTRY 1 Performance(s)
BROOKHAVEN, GA 4/5/2023
GRACE BIBLE CHURCH OF CENTRAL FLORIDA 1 Performance(s)
ORLANDO, FL 4/2/2023
LACEY SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 1 Performance(s)
SHELTON, WA 4/1/2023
ELK VALLEY ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1 Performance(s)
ST. ALBANS, WV 3/31/2023
HIS ACT 2 Performance(s)
WEST PLAINS, MO 4/16/2022
WILLIAMSBURG ASSEMBLY OF GOD 2 Performance(s)
WILLIAMSBURG, VA 4/15/2022

Behind The Scenes

With Terrell Anthony

 

What inspired you to write this play?

Shock, disbelief, danger—the repercussions of Jesus’s crucifixion that boil at the surface of biblical accounts.    

 

What's your favorite part or line in the play?  Why?

Mary Magdalene’s transition from despondent to resolute.  Her words make this play as much about today as then:  “The world is swirling, as if to swallow us up in a storm of anger, prejudice, and hate.  My past is calling to me, demanding that I return to fighting anger with anger, hate with hate, while holding fast to fear. It was my anchor in every storm and never failed to drowned me beneath the waves of circumstances I could never control.  Fear destroys.  It was destroying me from the inside out, leaving me isolated and hopeless…But then came Jesus.” 

 

What did you try to achieve with this play?

Create an opportunity for audience members to step back into history and confront their own fear about a dangerous and uncertain world.   

 

Do you have anything else you'd like to add?

I’m thankful many people who attend this play say they’re moved by it and that it prepares them to celebrate Easter in new and unique ways.