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ONE ACT PLAYS
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CALLING HEAVEN PLOT RESUME "A tightly written, very well constructed play with an excellent set opportunity for visually and verbally compelling theatre" (Scene, June 2001)
1 SET TIME - modern Script Sample On the roof-top, Andy is looking up at the stars ANDYWow, the stars are pretty, aren’t they? I could lie here for hours just staring at them. They are so beautiful. (Pause) Jen and I often came out here, you know, for a little privacy. Ha. Privacy. Sitting on an apartment roof in the middle of the city, surrounded by huge buildings and capitalism, monoxide and sulphur, and we found privacy on our roof. (Pause) At least that’s what I hope she thought. He slows down, beginning to get more upset I never took Liam up here. I sat inside with him and didn’t take him outside. Probably afraid that he’d fall and I’d have to watch him. But it’d have been so nice just to see him ask what they were, and how they stayed there. I can remember asking my Dad where the stars went during the daytime, and I laughed, cause he said they moved to the other side of the world so the other boys and girls could see them. What a big softie my Dad was. Wish he was here. God looks at Andy, lying down on the gravel roof and thinks. He decides to join him and they lie head to head on the roof, looking up at the heavens GOD You are right. The stars are rather nice. It pleases me to see you look at them like this.
God is looking at the way his breath vaporizes in front of him. He focuses on it GOD Oscar Wilde once wrote: "It is those who are in the gutter who are looking at the stars."
from Calling Heaven
259 The Moorings, Dalgety Bay, Fife, KY11 9GX. ©
2001 Spotlight Publications.
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