Son of Man
by Dennis Potter

The key to a bold and original approach to the mission, arrest, trial and death of Jesus is the title; Son of Man.

He is portrayed as a man agonized by the feeling of divinity within him, and with all a man's capacity for suffering and pain.

"Father, let me be just a man," he cries; and, to his disciples.

"He (Son of Man) cannot be other than a man, or else God has cheated-- and so my Father in Heaven will abandon me to myself."

The play also strongly reflects the historical and political situation in which the events occur-- and examines in a new light the character and motives of Judas Iscariot.