The Radiant Abyss
by Angus Maclachlan

The Radiant Abyss

Synopsis

THE STORY: Fuel the feral, dynamic, native smarts of forty-year-old Erin Skidmore, a sexy survivor of an abusive marriage, with the arrival of the shadowy but self-righteous religious men of The Garden of Paradise Cultural Oasis, recently ensconced in the same strip mall, next door to her property management office, and Erin's naturally high octane engine revs into Mach 5.

She seduces her former employee and current sex-puppy, twenty-three-year-old nighttime security guard Steve Enloe (never just "Steve") into roping his current girlfriend, Erin, a seemingly innocent, will-o-the-wisp Kinko's girl, into a scheme to investigate and possibly vandalize the "so-called church," an organization that may or may not believe in violence to promote their ends.

Nothing is as it seems, and the unfathomable mysteries of God, religion, bigotry, suspicion, love and sexual rapture constellate all three strivers into doing and not doing what they believe is right.

Into truth-telling and lying to get what they want.

Into revealing and hiding their true fears and feelings.

Until a pregnancy, a longstanding betrayal and a cataclysmic act of real terrorism overtake them and change everything for everyone, leaving in the wake no clear path to follow.

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Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 3 total roles, 1 female and 2 male roles.

Publication

Year Published
2006
ISBN 10
0822221187
ISBN 13
9780822221180
Binding
Paperback
Print Length
72 pages
Place Published
New York
Language
English
LCCN
2008540950
LCC
MLCS 2008/43572 (P)
Print
The Radiant Abyss is a American play written by and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York, 2006. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780822221180 and an ISBN-10 of 0822221187.

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