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An Orange with a Worm in It

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Drama about the feeding of the five thousand and the fallout from this extraordinary event

By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Three plays about the feeding of the five thousand and the personal and political fallout from this extraordinary event.

By Sebastian Baczkiewicz

Three plays about the feeding of the five thousand and the personal and political fallout from this extraordinary event. 

Episode Two – An Orange with a Worm in It

Five thousand people have danced down the mountain and into Tiberius City. It didn’t appear to be a riot. But there’s tension in Herod’s Palace, good people have been imprisoned and Salome is still missing. And trouble is not far from the door of Centurion Gaius.

Gaius ….. Robin Laing
Harvey ….. Benjamin Osugo
Asher ….. Michael Moreland
Quintus ….. Michael Nardone
Herod ….. Robert Jack
Sarah ….. Maggie Service
Dan ….. Andy Clark
Naomi ….. Jessica Hardwick
Salome ….. Hiftu Quasem
Joe-Joe ….. Kyle Gardiner
Herodius ….. Nicole Cooper

Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane

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Three plays by Sebastian Baczkiewicz about the feeding of the five thousand and the personal and political fallout from this extraordinary event.

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