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Parnassus' Den Stage Reading of Obedience a play by Peter Fleming
Monday 4 August - Obedience a play by Peter Fleming
 
Cast includes: John Derum, Peter McAllum
Directed by Jonathan Elsom
For thirty years, Alonso has served as an ordinary doorman for a religious college in Palma. Now, some people are saying he is the helpmate of the Devil.Why did he boldly predict a sea voyage by ten young pilgrims would be “golden”, when they were instead kidnapped at sea by pirates and sold as slaves?Is Alonso a dangerous subversive disguising himself behind an all-too-obedient facade, or merely a simpleton with delusions of grandeur?
Set on the island of Mallorca in Spain at the turn of the seventeenth century, Obedience takes us to a society which is the opposite of our own: from a world of self-expression to a world of conformity, from a time of individualism to a time of self-denial, from a society devoted to self-gratification to a society whose highest virtue is considered to be rigorous, mortifying obedience.
Obedience is a play about good intentions, catastrophic outcomes, and people who aren’t sure which are which.
Old Fitzroy Theatre
129 Dowling Street
Woolloomooloo
7:30Pm, $8/10
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