John Wolfson’s The Inn at Lydda, at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, is based on an incident recorded in The Death of Pilate, which can be found in the New Testament Apocrypha.
The mortally ill Emperor Tiberius (Stephen Boxer) in Rome hears about a man who is able to heal the sick; he decides to journey to Judea to be healed by him, only to find he has arrived too late. The man had been crucified three days earlier. Wolfson imagines a meeting between the risen Christ (Samuel Collings) and the Emperor. Will Christ heal a mass murderer?
