The Day After Easter
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Three kids finish off their Easter candy and can barely remember what the holiday is even about, until CHILD 3 (recently baptized) insists that Jesus rising from the dead is a much bigger deal than anyone's giving it credit for. The children imagine what the soldiers who guarded Jesus' tomb might have said to each other afterward — and the play cuts to that very scene: three soldiers, paid to lie about a stolen body, wrestling with what they actually saw. Two of them threaten violence to keep the truth buried; the third, shaken by the angel and the empty tomb, decides to go find out for himself whether Jesus is really alive.
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