If we
had been able to look on by satellite television when Jesus was born,
what would have been considered newsworthy?
This
innovative 2-act play, written to be performed live or using videotaped
interviews, follows a North American news shows attempt to determine
why all the baby boys in Jerusalem were murdered by Herods soldiers.
Studio
hosts Paula and Jack put the pieces together as investigative reporters
Madeline (in Bethlehem) and Frank (in Jerusalem) talk to a scribe
from the royal palace, one of the killer soldiers, a couple of otherworldly
Magi, an earnest innkeeper and his wife, two simple-yet-not-so-simple
shepherds, a couple from Mary and Josephs home town of Nazareth,
and an old woman named Anna who spends most of her time in the temple
at Jerusalem.
At the
conclusion, the reporters (along with the viewers) have to decide
if this story will affect their lives.