Pentecost

The Barrow Group inaugurates its newly completed 99-seat theatre with the premiere of David Edgar’s Pentecost. The play deals with an art curator and a British art historian as they weigh the authenticity of what appears to be a Giotto painting hidden in an abandoned church in Europe. A clash of cultures ensues as a series of events leads to the discovery that an Arab painted the Fresco about 800 years prior to Giotto’s work, indicating that Western art and culture sprang from the Middle East.