The Last Reliquary: Theatrical Drama in III Acts

By Martin Smallridge

In a city of seamless surfaces and sterilised skies, where silence hums through the corridors of memory and all sorrow has been archived into clarity, a single box arrives-a reliquary untethered from the sanctioned record. Its presence stirs something ancient within Elias Vance, Chief Archivist of the Ministry of Memory, whose immaculate life has long echoed with the quiet of the unlamented.

This theatrical drama unfolds through a world governed by curated forgetting, where grief has become a relic, and only sanctioned truths remain. Into this calm machinery steps a single anomaly-a child's shoe, a faded letter, a scent of rain. These remnants summon a tremble into the flawless air and awaken the dormant ache of love, loss, and presence.

Through Elias's unraveling, through Lena Marlowe's quiet awakening, through Jocasta Reid's devout clarity, and through the whispered guidance of a poet long silenced, The Last Reliquary becomes a symphony of memory reclaimed. Objects speak. Silence deepens. Tears return with grace.

Martin Smallridge crafts a play that refuses haste and embraces reverence. Here, theatre carries the weight of soulcraft. Each act invites the audience into breath, each scene opens space for forgotten voices to gather. Presence floods the stage where resolution once ruled.

Those who enter this reliquary will find not a tale of redemption, but a sacred invitation-to remember, to witness, to feel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FJLSRD38
• ISBN13: 9798293587186
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"