The Return of Benjamin Lay
by Naomi Wallace and Marcus Rediker

The Return of Benjamin Lay

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75 mins

Synopsis

In the silence of a Quaker meeting house, Benjamin Lay — shepherd, sailor, revolutionary, and the British Empire's first revolutionary abolitionist — returns from the grave almost 300 years after his death, as feisty and unpredictable as ever.

The four-foot "David" confronts the "Goliath" of slavery as he demands once again to be readmitted into the Quaker community that disowned him for ideas considered dangerous and disruptive.

How far will he go to share his prophetic vision knowing the cost of protest?

Sweeping across the centuries and continents, THE RETURN OF BENJAMIN LAY is a hallucinatory exploration of the life of a radical who became one of the earliest revolutionary abolitionists.

Publication

Year 2025
Pages 36
ISBN-13 9798888560488

The Return of Benjamin Lay is a play written by Naomi Wallace and Marcus Rediker and published by Broadway Play Publishing (2025).

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