GENEVA AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY

Sunday 5 September

JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT

The story takes place about three thousand years ago in Canaan. To show his love for Joseph, his favourite son, Jacob presents him with a fabulous multicoloured coat which is the envy of his eleven brothers. Joseph has been having strange dreams, which he interprets to mean that he will become much more important than all the rest of his family. When he tells his brothers, they are understandably angry and jealous and they plot to get rid of him. One day in the desert, they seize him and sell him to some passing Ishmaelite slave traders, taking his torn coat to Jacob, who is deceived into thinking that his favourite son has been killed. Joseph, meanwhile, is sold to a rich Egyptian called Potiphar. He works hard and is quickly promoted, but is seduced by Mrs Potiphar and consequently thrown into jail by his master. However, word of his unusual gift of interpreting dreams reaches the ears of Pharaoh, who is himself being plagued by nightmares. Joseph explains that the dreams foretell a great famine. He advises Pharaoh how to avert this crisis and in return is made royal adviser, second only to the king. Meanwhile, in Canaan, Jacob's family is hit hard by the famine and Jacob sends his remaining sons to Egypt to beg for food from Pharaoh's mysterious new adviser .....