Chappek's at Sera, a Play About Methuselah

The play was written as a repast to george bernard shaw's play about methuselah. Chapek himself said it was accidental, but you ere always slightly suspicious when these things emerge out of the ether. The first playe is a rewriting of genesis, and the serpent offers adam and eve, who are immortal, offer them actually, birth as the compensation for the loss of immortality. And it's a play that is very much in favour of longevity,. A play that is a celebration of the wisdom that comes with old age. It's not clear whether it was a direct repast atclly. But it s a really interesting conversation between the two

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