MARGARET FOREY
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Plays by Margaret Forey
Daniel And The Beastly Babylonians |
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| Genre: | Youth play, 75 min | Youth Audience | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 32 speaking parts | |||||
| Notes: | Interior, exotic, Middle Eastern effect; various rostra or benches, screens or hangings to allow several entrances. | |||||
| Synopsis: | Daniel and his companions, captured in war, are brought to Babylon to work for the King. Their success arouses the envy of the High Priest and the now-redundant magicians and sorcerers, who conspire to get the newcomers into trouble - in the forms of a Burning Fiery Furnace and a Den of Lions. Their plots fail and it is the arrogant King Belshazzar who is destroyed, as forecast by the hand which writes mysterious characters on a wall. Under his successor the Priests and Sorcerers hope at last to have Daniel discredited; instead he is able to demonstrate their trickery to the King. Daniel's enemies are overthrown and hiscause vindicated. | |||||
