by Dennis Potter
with Colin Blakely as Jesus, Robert Hardy as Pontius Pilate, Bernard Hepton as Caiaphas, Brian Blessed as Peter

This play is about Jesus the man; it is also about the religious, political, and military climate in which he lived.
Jerusalem is expecting a Messiah. The occupying Romans, under Pontius Pilate, put down religious fanatics and their followers with brutality. It is a time of change and of violence - not entirely unlike today.
The play sees Jesus very much as a man; a man capable of friendship and of anger, of doubt and of laughter. He is a man haunted by the question 'Am I indeed the Messiah?'
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"One of the most compelling pieces ever put out by that controversial vehicle, BBC-1's Wednesday Play" (Daily Express)
"Immensely exciting, imaginative and vivid" (Robert Ottaway, Daily Sketch)
"Colin Blakely touched greatness many times in this remarkable play" (New Statesman)
"It managed to make the mystery even more mysterious; the enigma more enigmatic"
(Maurice Wiggin, Sunday Times)