LUMINARIUM
A Drama in Five Acts
The Saints Plays — Book One
Luminarium is a dramatic retelling of the conversion of King Drtad, the first of the Armenian kings to embrace the Christian faith. The action is set in 284 A.D. in the Palace of King Drtad, where Gregory has laid aside his noble pedigree to become a servant in the house of the King.
The conflict rises when the King calls upon Gregory to make sacrifice to the goddess Anahid. Gregory declines, kindling the King’s anger and landing him in the royal dungeon. Gregory endures torture with grace and patience, believing that his suffering will lead to the King’s conversion.
When the King discovers that Gregory is the son of the assassin that killed the King’s father, he rejects Gregory’s faith claims and sentences him to die in the dungeon without food or water — releasing a curse upon the kingdom and hastening the play’s tumultuous conclusion: the King’s conversion and Gregory’s miraculous survival.
Available in print and Kindle editions · Paperback · 2011
Scot Lahaie is a playwright living in the Midwest. His full-length plays include the award-winning Dogfall, Gloria Dei, Purging Mary, Luminarium, Mysterium, Miraculum, Purgatorium, LEAR ReLoaded, The Cattle Baron’s Ball, Big Brother 2024, Mary, Mother of God, and Gadfly.