Begat: A Play

A Stage Play In a country, after the war. A Judge throws a dinner party, seeking support against a powerful minister who has raped and killed a servant girl. But the Judge himself is the target tonight, and the shadow of the war he so desperately wants to leave behind threatens to engulf his family as a young woman seeks revenge for the sins of his past.

Thomas Alexander has worked in almost all forms of theatre, from opera to children’s performances, working as everything from stage hand to costume designer, and has seen his work translated into four different languages and performed as far afield as America and Afghanistan. His plays; Writing William, Begat, Great & The Visitor along with his novel; A Scattering Of Orphans have been published by Direct Light Publications.