"Apostle" -  Sunrise

Act  I : Scene  I

Produced  & Arranged by Frank Doyle

Musical Interpretations by Mark Clements

**The Main Character is named Kev, a Greek translation of the name Peter.

He stands alone on an empty blackened stage spotlight only on him.

The Main Character speaks to a mostly  unseen mentor.**

KEV:

• “I could’ve done so much more if they just didn’t take me then.”

MENTOR:

• “You were old. What else could’ve you done?”

KEV:

• “Not old enough!”

MENTOR:

• “You have lived thousands of eons and each time you went down, you chose your challenge and found your lessons to be learned. But this time, you know what must be done. You know what you have to do.”

KEV:

• “Pave the way on solid ground, like a rock, be firm, so we may finish what we’ve started long ago. Prepare a way.”

**The Missionary named Kev is bid farewell by what appears to be a Jewish Rabbi, yet the view of this man is not completely clear. Yet they are not in a temple or even in Jerusalem. They seem to be in a celestial setting, the star system known as the Pleiades perhaps (the fabled constellation of the Human origin; hence the “House of God”). Is this Rabbi really God himself creating the being we will know as "Kev"?  As in Biblical scripture, God quoted as saying: "I knew you before I created you." **

MENTOR: “Shalom Aleichem!”

KEV: “Shalom Aleichem!”

[Kev is swooped up above the stage in to a levitated set of a half-pipe cutout of the interior and fuselage of a commercial airliner plane (one seat, one window, and a stewardess who walks by with a serving cart).]

[Lights fade on the set as a projection across the large visual screens appear of a 3dimensional ball of light flies away from the Pleiades constellation toward Earth.]

[The ball of light grows larger as it gets closer and swooshes by with thundering sound and vibrating, shaking and trembles the audience. Kev is seen again briefly in a flash, in his airplane seat as the fuselage spirals downward toward the floor of the stage. The fuselage turns so Kev turns out of sight, and now the outside of this section of plane is seen. The fuselage blackens out and the ball of light swooshes by a second time, still with thundering sound and shaking the audience as it too spirals toward Earth. Out from the visual screens which have a mountainous background; Physically a huge white ball glaring with light crashes into the floor of the stage with bright flashes of light and pyrotechnics and displaces a large plume of sand and giving off white smoke, while the crashing thunders once again shakes the audience.]

[The Stage Blackens. There is silence. A vague low pitch sound of a synthesizer keyboard sound crescendos into the ambience of the theatre. Spotlight fades into center stage revealing only the standing body of Kev in a tight spandex white hooded jumpsuit emerging from the darkness with only a hint of the wreckage of the craft behind him. He appears to immediately shrink down to a baby size, and the sound of a baby crying fills the theatre.]

[The stage blackens. The set is removed quickly in one piece on a moving floor.]

[Back lighting fades in as the stage has a new set with a Teepee tent. There are Native Tribal Americans dancing a dance of a newborn baby. The baby is produced from the tent and shown to the people of the tribe.]

NATIVE CHIEF:

• “I declare that the name of the papoose shall be called Pedro!”

CHORUS:

• (Dressed as Natives and white hippie folk) (Cheers)

**Nerdy looking Hippie white folk are integrated among the tribe.

The mother of the child is an early 60’s flower child. The father is a Tribal Native.

The chief has named the Baby, yet does not approve of the union of the mother and father.

He banishes his brother, his wife and child.

The family becomes homeless, destitute and hungry.

They eventually sell the baby to white lawyers for thousands of dollars with the assurance that they will find the baby a reliable home.

The baby Pedro is sold for profit to white New York Jews who rename the baby Kevin.

Time passes in a flash and the next scene shows the child at 13 years of age having his Bar Mitzvah.

Time passes again in a flash and the next scene shows Kev in adulthood.

Kev is asleep dreaming and sees in his dream the ball of light coming out of the heavens swooping by and crashing. Still in the dream, he sees an adolescent girl and a godly image of a man in the mountains.

Kev feels a divine spiritual touch again, and in a solitary moment, he questions if what he is feeling is God; the one his elders taught him about concerning :

"The Covenant", "The Promise".**

[He walks toward the audience at center stage and begins to sing the following to the music playing on this page.]

"Sunrise"

(verse)

         Is that really you God?

Speaking in a still voice,

Allowing me my own choice;

Is that really you God?

         Is that really you God?

Sounding like my own voice,

I think it's time to rejoice;

Is that really you?

(chorus)

          Feeling Love in the sunrise hour,

What is this day 'gonna' bring?

Somehow feeling larger than life,

as if I'm in the court of the King!

Knowing that you Love me so,

How can I share your way?

Into a crowd of unbelievers,

What could I possibly say?

(verse)

         Is that really you God?

A whisper in a small voice,

Eloquently poised;

Is that really you?

         Is that really you God?

Lurking in the shadows,

Encouraging me to be,

Walking straight and narrow.

(chorus)

  Feeling Love in the sunrise hour,

What is this day 'gonna' bring?

Somehow feeling larger than life,

as if I'm in the court of the King!

Knowing that you Love me so,

How can I share your way?

Into a crowd of unbelievers,

What could I possibly say?

(bridge)

I am so inspired,

I've been seeing you once in a while,

Shining in all your glory right in front of me;

Showing all I can be, when I live my life for you.

(verse)

         Is that really you God?

Calling out my name;

Do I  really hear you?

Or am I playing games?

         Is that really you God?

Tugging on my shirttails,

Bleeding from those long nails;

Am I really Saved?

The scene changes and Kev is saying goodbye to his Jewish family and community.

He gets swooped up to the airplane seat again, for a short moment and then the fuselage spirals back to the stage like before, but without crashing. He has landed at an airport.

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