Yep... an outrageously 'divine' comedy on celestial baseball !
by Steve Esquerre - Esquerré

Oh... That Light!

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Yep... an outrageously
'divine' comedy
on celestial baseball !

Editor’s Note: As we stumble, bumble, and hurtle into the 21st century, here is Scene4’s offering to the New Age. It fits the time, the milieu, and the medium. The playwright is mad (as in ‘off his rocker’), and the play is mad (as in ‘out in left field somewhere’)... yet he and it capture an inspired view through the fog and a delightful level of stagecraft. We love it!... and we publish it as is - in all of its raw innocence, delirious burlesque humor, and awkwardly pure theatricality. Take it for what it is... an actor’s dream and a producer’s nightmare. When it is produced, on opening night when the curtain goes down to thunderous applause, the director should be brought out and shot! What will remain is the stuff of theatre -- the madness of the playwright, the madness of the actors and their audience and the wonderful madness that is live theatre.

What follows is a comparatively calm introduction by the playwright, Steve Esquerré, of his play OHH... THE LIGHT! with a link for you to download the play. From that point, you’re on your own.

OHH … THAT LIGHT!, a divine comedy, deals with how the suddenly deceased - History’s finest example of a manCHILD – Walter Esquerré - plays the game of his life,

in the battle for his life, up there in God’s country. He ‘awakens’ in THE Tunnel; quickly convoking his ever-lurking manCHILD to perform his most excellent, problem-avoiding song and dance routines; bedazzled,  drawn to THE Light, where three Greeting Angels - one is gay, one Runyonesque, one a yuppie - tell him of the covenant GOD (who has been dying to see an up-close-and-personal pitching performance by Esquerré) has in mind. It will even include a full pardon of all accumulated purgatory time thus far; which is quite sizable for one yet to turn thirty (in the same Ballpark as Kennedy and Clinton!). He will be tested. If successful he shalt be granted the privilege to decide to stay or return.

The Test? … why it’s to be held on Heaven’s immaculate baseball field; upon which he must pitch to but three batters; but, and a big but, he must get all three out. 

His ‘junk’ had better be good; for alas, two are Hall-of-Famers; and, the third (mysterious, unknown) even greater than they!

Finally, the Light goes on: Esquerré realizes he must dig in; call upon the great God-given talent he had frivolously thrown away, along with so many others, in his lifetime.

If he wants that second chance, he must control the ball … and himself!

Face up to the challenge of this Divine trial. If you can make it here … et cetera, et cetera.

SO … amidst a cast of zany characters: Elvis, Roget (as in Thesaurus), Harry Carry, Moses, Pontius Pilate (he does schtik at GOD’S command), a FOP named HORTON (gets into a Dr. Seuss ‘WHO’ routine with GOD, and just loves to cavort with the lesser Greek gods), Doubting Thomas (has five costume changes), a cameo appearance by HIS son: dei filius, the Devil as GOD’S spittoon … yup, God chews; and, let’s say it, GOD snoozes!

SO … with Esquerré’s nutty family in charge of weather up there; St. Peter getting frazzled by PEARLY GATE GRIDLOCK; and with Vendors selling Rosaries and Holy Water; let’s not leave out Esquerré’s teammates, whom GOD has agreed to include in the Covenant. They are a hopeless, hapless, helpless, brainless bunch of whiners (except for Vinny the Center Fielder, a Sopranos-type, with angelic BODYGUARDS?!)

SO … let the GAME begin, and make no mistake about it, Baseball is GOD’s Game!

SO HE said it to be written in the first sentence of Genesis, “In the Big Inning….”

SO … it’s one, two, three Outs; or it’s LIGHTS OUT! … BATTER UP!

So help you GAWD!

 

© 2001 Steve Esquerré ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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by Steve Esquerré

January 2001

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