Brother Petroc's Return
by Emmet Lavery, Sister Mary C. Anderson

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Synopsis

Not since John Balderston fashioned Berkeley Square out of one of Henry James' time theories, has the stage had so appealing a figure as that of young Petroc Trelant who comes awake in a Benedictine abbey in the twentieth century and discovers that he is both 27 and 400 years of age at one and the same time.

This rare adventure in theatre tells the story of a young monk who stepped directly from the Age of Faith into the Age of Reason.

But the ways of one age are not the ways of another and in trying to adapt himself to today, Petroc loses the sense of certainty which was his in yesterday.

How he finds himself is a vibrant and virile story.

Publication

Publisher Samuel French
ISBN-13 9780573606342
ISBN-10 057360634X

Brother Petroc's Return is a play written by Emmet Lavery and published by Samuel French .

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