PILATE: The Lost Gospel is set in 36 AD. Pontius Pilate — former Prefect of Judea,
soldier of Rome, and the man who sentenced Jesus of Nazareth to death — has been
summoned back to Rome to account for his governance. What follows is not a political
defense. It is a confession. A reckoning. And, ultimately, a gospel told in his own words.
Punter’s writing moves between the epic and the intimate — tracing Pilate’s life from the
battlefields of Germania to the fractious streets of Jerusalem, and to the singular
encounter with a “peculiar rabbi from Nazareth” that would define him forever. Part
thriller, part memoir, part moral reckoning, the play asks what it means to be a man of
conscience in a world that rewards brutality.

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