New Play Explores Struggles of Mary and Joseph Before Christ’s Birth ncregister.com

G.K. Chesterton Entertainment, a new production company founded by Maria Vargo and Jonathan Roumie (Jesus in The Chosen, the largest crowd-funded TV series in history), is presenting a staged reading of Denise Vi Flaten’s 30 Minutes B.C.: A Nativity Play for online viewers. Featuring Clayton Snyder (Ethan Craft in Lizzie McGuire) as Joseph and Zuri Starks as Mary, with Jonathan Roumie providing stage directions, this 45-minute staged reading for the Christmas season explores the struggles Joseph and Mary might have had as they prepared for the coming of the Christ child.

“Mary and Joseph suffered from the same stuff we do. They’re not as unrelatable as we think,” said Vi Flaten. “I hope I’ve taken the warm, comfortable living Nativity scenes we’ve seen before and problematized them a bit, because I don’t think we can appreciate the light if we don’t acknowledge the dark.”…

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