The_Rising_of_Pete_Marsh
The Rising of Pete Marsh
Play written by Dorothy Hewett
The Rising of Pete Marsh is a play by Australian playwright Dorothy Hewett. Music was composed by Jim Cotter.
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The central character is an almost perfectly preserved body found in peat marshes in England in 1984, known as Lindow Man or Pete Marsh. The first Act relates his story during the Roman occupation of Britain. In the second Act the body is discovered and revived to live briefly in the year 2000.The characters of the first Act reappear as contemporary figures.
The play explores the age old human yearning for immortality, whether by Celtic reincarnation, the Christian belief in the immortality of the soul or the scientist's tinkering with genetic engineering. It contrasts the Nature Religion of the Forest People with the God of Love who forbids natural relations between men and women.[1]