Photo Flash: First Look at WRITTEN ON THE HEART at Burning Coal Theatre Company

Burning Coal Theatre Company will present David Edgar's Written on the Heart, a drama about the creation of the King James Bible. The play will run December 1-3, 8-10 and 15-17, 2016 at 7:30 pm and December 4, 11 and 18th at 2 pm at Burning Coal's Murphey School Auditorium, 224 Polk Street, Raleigh, NC 27604. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

David Edgar's Written on the Heart is a celebration of the astonishing story of the 80 year long fight to create a Bible that could be read and understood by the People. A Heretic is hunted down by the Church. His illicit tome is burned, followed shortly by its author. But William Tyndale left behind something more than his own charred bones. He left behind an idea. Written on the Heart is packed full of history and ideas. As is the case with all of David Edgar's plays, it brims with language, with life and death situations, with people fighting for what they believe in. Among other things, William Tyndale's Bible is credited with introducing more idioms to the English language, such as "Let my people go", "Rise and Shine", "Let there be light", "my brother's keeper", "go the extra mile"... and many, many more... more than any writer in the English language before or since.