Hello friends - hope you are all having a good life; mine's been quite busy with a visit to Sofia last month and getting ready for performances I'm going to be giving in December. One is going to be a new one man show I have written for community performance - mainly churches. It is "The Bethlehem Street Cleaner's Tale". Here is some of the publicity. Bijou Productions “The Bethlehem Street Cleaner’s Tale” Written and performed by John D Slater. Just going about his job as he will be doing on many another day, sweeping the streets of the little town and keeping the place tidy, Benny the Bethlehem street cleaner meets up with a young couple who have a problem – they’ve got nowhere to stay. They’d come all the way from Nazareth for a census, which has been ordered by Caesar Augustus. But like Benny tells us—”The place was heaving. You couldn’t get a room for love—nor money!” Benny offers to try to help them; and that was the start of an incredible experience for him – an experience which he will never forget – and in his own words “Knocked me for a six – I can tell you !” The story of this meeting and everything surrounding it is the basis of this one man play. Setting the scene for the conditions at the time and painting the picture in words and music our actor John D Slater, draws his audience into the story. Running time for the production is approximately one hour and it can be given in any venue and requires no special staging or lighting. The suggested time for the performance to begin is 7pm – finishing at 8pm to enable school age children to attend. It can be performed at any time of year, though December / January are considered the most suitable months for presentation. Every good wish, John