EPISODE 6: THE SIXTH WEEK IN LENT

MARY

MARTHA

MARY MAGDALENE

CAPTAIN

JUDAS

SOLDIER

JESUS

PETER

JOHN

THOMAS

[MARY and MARTHA are together. MARY MAGDALENE enters.]

MARTHA: Mary Magdalene...!

MARY MAGDALENE: Oh, Martha. I’m so glad to find you home ... and Mary.

MARY: Come in, Mary Magdalene. Are you all right?

MARY MAGDALENE: No ...

MARY: Why, what’s the matter?

MARY MAGDALENE: I can’t explain it.

MARTHA: Try to tell us.

MARY MAGDALENE: I should be happy after today ... the crowds, the cheering, the wonderful reception they gave the Lord. You heard about it?

MARY: Yes. We heard.

MARTHA: Lazarus was there. He’s gone to tell some others.

MARY: It must have been exciting.

MARY MAGDALENE: It was, except ...

MARTHA: Except what, Mary Magdalene?

MARY MAGDALENE: I don’t know.

MARTHA: Didn’t the Lord enjoy it?

MARY MAGDALENE:…