Director brings 'Life of Moses' to the West End stage

Mr Sinyor said working on the play has been a "huge amount of fun.

"With a film you don't really interact with the audience, whereas with a play you are doing things that involve them - things that you could never get away with in a film."

For NotMoses, the audience will take on the role of the Children of Israel, and characters on stage will directly address them.

Mr Sinyor, who has written, directed and produced films since the 1990s, scored a box-office success in 1992 with Leon the Pig Farmer, about a Jewish estate agent from north London who discovers that his birth parents are running a piggery in Yorkshire.

In-deed, NotMoses began life as a film script about six years ago .

The play deals with the issue of fundamentalism, "hopefully in an entertaining way", said Mr Sinyor.

"Religion lends itself well to comedy. It's a surreal approach where you can bring the modern into the anc-
ient world."