Mary Magdalene Page #2

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This is not your place.

Come out, Demon, come out, Demon.

Stay still! Stay still!

Come out and depart from here.

No!

Leave her, and flee outside.

Be silent, be silent, silence yourself.

Daniel!

(DANIEL GRUNTING)

DANIEL:

Leave her alone!

- MARY:
Father!

- DANIEL:
Leave her!

(GRUNTS)

(WATER SPLASHING)

(MARY GASPING)

Leave her...

ELISHA:

Stop! Stop!

(PANTING)

Mary.

(SPEAKING HEBREW)

(SIGHS)

Father.

Please.

Let me bring the healer.

Yes.

(DOOR OPENS)

ELISHA:

She won't talk to me.

I don't know who she is anymore.

JESUS:

I'll see her alone.

(DOOR CLOSES)

Your family says

you grapple with the demon.

If there's a demon in me,

it's always been there.

I wish there was a demon.

JESUS:

Why?

What is it you fear in yourself?

My thoughts.

My longings, my unhappiness.

I fear that I shame my family.

I do shame them.

I'm not as I'm supposed to be.

What is it you long for?

I'm not sure.

To know God.

And yet you've felt

God's presence.

Sometimes, in the stillness,

I think I feel it.

It's always been there.

All it needs is your faith.

There are no demons here.

Rest now.

Rest in the light.

(BIRDS CHIRPING)

(GOATS BLEATING)

Elisha is going to see

Ephraim today.

He thinks the match

is still possible.

ANDREW:

Join us!

- JOHN:
Come join us!

- ANDREW:
Come, brother!

- Mary.

- ANDREW:
Join us!

Mary!

Mary!

JESUS:

Each of you stand at the threshold.

Do you fear that you will

never reach the kingdom?

MAN 1:
Whose kingdom?

Herod's kingdom?

MAN 2:

He keeps company with sinners.

You know as well as I do there

is only one true kingdom.

And that is God's.

(VILLAGERS CHATTERING)

And God's kingdom

is taking root.

So we must prepare.

You must wash away the stains

of your corruption

and be born anew.

Like children.

I have been hidden for too long.

And now you hide.

Each one of you.

Behind the semblance

of your faith,

you recite your songs

and present your sacrifices

as if your hearts and spirits,

your service to God, were what?

And afterwards, you go back to your

lives and do what pleases you,

what suits you,

what makes the days upon this

Earth pass easily for you.

Like dreamers.

But wake up, Magdala.

Open your eyes.

Look at the people

in Galilee and Judaea suffering,

crying out for help,

for mercy, for justice!

Look at the crosses

on the hills of Jerusalem.

MAN 3:

Blame the Romans!

JOSEPH:
Our holy city held

hostage to Roman jackals.

MAN 4:

Jerusalem is lost to us!

MAN 5:

Who will deliver us?

(VILLAGERS CLAMORING)

Can your faith be held hostage?

(CLAMORING STOPS)

Listen.

In the silence.

Is there something

calling?

Do you have the courage

to follow what you hear?

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