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Few words survive from the dark ages. Even fewer from women. But a voice echoes through the millennia, speaking of miracles and martyrdom... One thousand years ago, in a lonely cell in a remote abbey in Saxony, the nun Hrotswitha of Gandersheim wrote the play Dulcitius. Both farce and tragedy, it is a tale of buffoonish Roman soldiers battling the frightening conviction of three girls determined to be Christian martyrs. Interpreting the original text from a modern standpoint, this production is for both skeptic and believer, the contented and the disillusioned; a thoroughly unusual and vital attempt to reconcile a rationalist Western framework with the transcendent influences that shape our common history, mythology, and current struggles with religious extremism. From the sublime to the mundane, modern to ancient, science to religion, Dulcitius is a reminder of how much - and how little - has changed over the past one thousand years.

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Author: Hrotswitha of Gandersheim
Company: Amateur Dramatic Club