PROVERBIAL THEATER
Read, reflect, and respond—through stage play excerpts and narrative passages designed for ongoing engagement and real-time reflection.
Stage Plays
Selected excerpts from live performances
The Laboratory of Sin
Act I
Lights up. A single warm pool of light. The character (“THE HEART”) stands over the desk, holding a folded note (or phone). He reads it once, twice. He forces a thin smile he doesn’t believe.
THE HEART (softly, to himself): It was only a sentence. A sentence people say when they’re tired, careless, or trying to be clever. (Beat.)
A sentence that doesn’t deserve an echo. (He taps the paper.) …And yet— (He listens to the silence) Here we are.
The Pit and the Path
In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons. The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab and lived there. Elimelech, Naomi’s husband, died; and she was left with her two sons. They took for themselves wives of the women of Moab. The name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other was Ruth. They lived there about ten years. Mahlon and Chilion both died, and the woman was bereaved of her two children and of her husband.