Genre:
Dark Comedy
Runtime:
120 - 120 mins
Cast:
4 male(s), 4 female(s), gender-flexible
Synopsis:
Angels, The Ninth Order
By Mark Mc Quown
Synopsis
The play takes place in Heaven in a location called The Way Station. The story has eight characters; four men and four women, whose ages range from ten, (or a woman who looks ten), up to the mid-sixties with Wendell the mechanic.
In the first act, Angel Pledges are dropped into the Way Station through a crude chute or tube offstage and unseen. They hit the floor backstage and then roll through the red curtains separated by white sheers and join the slowly growing crowd of Angels-to-be on the cloud and sky painted floor. The first Act is an introduction to the characters who persistently ask questions about when they will become Angels and what is the process but they get few answers causing the pledges to come together as a unit.
In Act Two, the unit begins to form a plan of action since it seems that God is too busy at the moment to give this new group any attention. As the Act moves forward, the plan of escape is slowly fine-tuned and at the very end, the new group of pledges jumps off the cloud and returns to Earth as the second coming to help inform and fight against the new evil of ISIS and ISIL.
Angels is about evil and focuses on the present evil of ISIS or ISIL and the conundrum of why the Lord isn't taking a recognizable stand in a fight that is over-poweringly about good and evil. In the end, this new group of recruit Angels causes a mutiny in Heaven and all at the same time, they bail out of the Way Station, making their way back down the chute to earth to rejoin with each other as a band of informed citizens who are disseminating to all earthly beings that this evil we face on earth today, in the radical form of ISIS or ISIL, is truly evil and may be
ruled through the direct intervention of Morningstar, the King of Hell.
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