E: Julio Salas Portillo
ANGEL F: Bonnie Ruth Kaplan
ANGEL G: Glenn James Washington
ANGEL H: Liddy N. Abrahamson
ANGEL I: Hector Marshall Simmons
ANGEL J: Dierdre Wakefield
Then all together:
ANGELS: Roy Elliot Edmunds
Rachael Linda Edwards
Cecilia Luz Gutierrez
Peter Samuel Roth
James Dillard Takahashi
Aditi Amy Ranadivay
George Martin Lewis
EMILY (Delighted): Oh! Bingo. This one’s very small. This one hardly lived at all
The Angels whisper with her:
EMILY AND ANGELS: Monica
Alicia
Perry.
Flashlight out.
CHAPTER 8
BARUCH: At first it was only the faintest rain
D: I know that first bit. After you make that first right turn I don’t know—
F: So pretty but I had to take them off directly after. They really hurt my feet—and I was not stable.
C: As soon as I touched her I knew it was on
An umbrella goes up.
A: I said to him I said:
BARUCH: now it’s a sluice of fists beating again and again
Umbrellas go up, and protective newspapers.
F: and then, this is really romantic—
C AND E: I can’t eat that. I said. I really can’t it’s the texture
A, D AND F: We were overcome with wonder
E: Will he be fed upon by the cockatrices?
D: No, no. They will be satiate already
A: He knows his shit!
B, C AND A: We were overcome with wonders
E: I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled
F (Announcement: bored and weary civil servant): There’s no waiting on the platform at this station.
C: In Brooklyn or Queens you drink more than four rounds or you tip him ridiculously you get that drink free
A AND E: The mountains were loaded with lions, waiting to discharge onto the city below
D: I always get the soup here
A:
I beheld, and, lo, there was no man
and all the birds of the heavens were fled
E: I’ll have to check but I don’t think so, I think it’s expired.
F (Announcement): There is a smoke condition at this station. Please enter the train, or exit the station.
D:
His dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat
and in the night to the frost
F:
I will make them drink
the water of gall
D:
for their words are diseases
and must be purged
A: No we all take the 4
E: Then we go downtown.
ALL: Downtown.
C: It’s supposed to be good.
D: I love that fucking place!
F: I think oh, I’m really going to miss New York.
ALL: A dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment.
D:
I was perturbed by the Lion problem
I was disturbed by the cockatrices
BARUCH:
The rain came gushing down in great sputtery bursts
overstepping all bounds of moisture
everything outside was one big drench:
CHAPTER 9
The Palace of King Zedekiah who sits on his throne.
Rain on the roof.
Ebediah is near.
The remaining actors stand on either side of the stage, and frame the action with their hands.
EBEDIAH (To Jeremiah):
Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags
under thine armholes under the cords
and we will draw you up, from the pit
To King Zedekiah:
We threw down old cast clouts and rotten rags
we said:
now put on these old cast clouts and rotten rags
under your armholes, and we will draw you up,
and he did so
And then we threw down the cords
and then did draw him up by the armholes
with cords
Jeremiah is drawn up and brought before the king.
He is drenched in mire.
KING ZEDEKIAH:
The princes said unto me:
PRINCES:
