Mary Magdalene: A Play in Three Acts

The play follows a woman with a troubled past whose presence in a Roman-ruled town provokes moral outrage, intimate entanglements, and political tension. Across three acts, public condemnation, private encounters, and a decisive crisis expose competing claims of punishment, compassion, and authority. A messianic figure intervenes to halt communal violence, while the woman faces a wrenching choice that could either imperil or save that figure depending on whether she sacrifices herself for a Roman official. Themes of redemption, social hypocrisy, the limits of law and mercy, and the individual’s struggle between desire and duty are developed in evocative domestic and civic settings.