Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory
Presents
A World Premiere Musical
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When Pharaoh decrees
that all boy babies must die...
Puah's Midwife Crisis is based on an Old Testament story that took place just before the birth of Moses, at a time when a new Pharaoh had come to power over Egypt, one who "no longer remembered Joseph". The Hebrews had been living in Egypt for 400 years, and they had grown so great in number that the Egyptians were threatened by their population explosion. Pharaoh's method of dealing with this situation was to call Puah and Shiphrah, the two midwives to the Hebrew people, before him and command them to kill all Hebrew boy babies upon their birth. Pharaoh's law is law of the land, but midwives are called to affirm life, not kill.
...What's a midwife to do?
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