A play in two acts that retells the traditional nativity story from the perspective of women.

Synopsis

Set in a time when men claimed dominion over all the earth (including women), Beth,
overworked and undervalued, questions whether she, or indeed any woman,
has a purpose other than meekly obeying every man’s command.
Then one fateful day, when her husband turns away a young pregnant woman and
her husband from his full inn, Beth breaks all the rules, defying the social norms
that tightly constrict her, to help the desperate couple.
On a harrowing journey of humiliation, violence and danger,
she emerges as the unlikely hero when she finds herself in the middle of a
miracle of biblical proportions.

December 2024
Reading as finalist in the 2024 STAGED program series by
OdysseyStage Theatre Company
Raleigh, North Carolina