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Framed by a pair of funerals, The Secret Rapture tells a story of a warring family and obsessive love while making a case history of corporate cannibalism and greed in the Thatcher-Reagan era. David Hare uses the tragic story of Marion and her very different sister, Isobel, as an ecumenical parable of the failure of all religions, temporal and spiritual, to offer salvation in the world we have made. The saintly Isobel, a free-spirited graphics artist who is as selfless as Marion is materialistic, is also crushed by the uncontrollable passions around her. So is the play's one true believer in old-time faith, Marion's sad-eyed husband, Tom, a born-again Christian entrepreneur who cannot find Jesus at the moment when he needs Him most.