The Rising of Pete Marsh is a play by Australian playwright Dorothy Hewett.
The first Act relates his story during the Roman occupation of Britain.
The play explores the age old human yearning for immortality, whether by Celtic reincarnation, the Christian belief in the immortality of the soul or the scientist's tinkering with genetic engineering.
[1] The play was commissioned by the Department of English at the University of Western Australia, and Hewett travelled to Perth for six months in 1987 to oversee the production.
It was directed by Aarne Neeme, bringing the director back to the stage of Hewett's most famous play, The Chapel Perilous.