Women of the Bible

A few weeks ago, our church hosted Anita Gutschick, and her One Woman Show - Women of the Bible.   The show tells the tale of three different women from the Bible.  Anita tells the story of each of the women in the first person - dressed in character - with such a passion that she sweeps you into the heart of the story.  The three women we saw her perform were Queen Esther, Lot's Wife, and Rahab.  Let me tell you, it was a fascinating show.  I want to see her again.

On her website, Anita lists one thing that has stuck with me from before I saw her perform through to today - God worked - and continues to work - through ordinary people.  

As part of her performance, we set up the Narthex as a bazaar - what we imagine a bazaar might have looked like a couple thousand years ago.  Of course, ours was indoors, in climate controlled comfort, so I don't think it was as honest as it could have been!  But, we did do our best to find things that might have been in a marketplace and put them on display.

Baskets

From the spice market!

Pottery

Inside of the sanctuary, we attempted to set the stage to help transport the audience back to the time being depicted.

Rahab's area - left side of the stage.

Common table used by all of the characters. 

More character.

Queen Esther's chair.