Character; Older man, very confident and talkative.
Peter-optional
God-optional (These characters could be imagined by the audience)
I’m really here! This is amazing, it’s beautiful…Oh thanks Peter, St. Peter, Wow! Heaven. Awesome. I can’t wait to meet God, so many questions. I’m finally here. Eternal life and everything is so radiant, almost dazzling. And so peaceful and quiet too. So still and calm and stress-free. (God enters).. Oh it’s God, this is fantastic. Superb. Hello God, this is a great place, of course. I assumed it would be, one of those givens really I guess – Heaven a great place, Hell not so great, logical I guess. No harps of course or halos, not that I really expected…but it’s great. Perfect of course isn’t it, well you would know cos you made it and you live here really don’t you. Wow! So many questions. Can you see the Earth from here? I guess it’s out there somewhere. Glad I’m not there anymore. I must say the place is getting a mess which is sad. Sad for you too I expect. Not getting much of a look in these days. Still that might be partly cos of what has been happening around the place down there for the last 50 or a hundred years. I’m not sure why you let some of that stuff happen. It’s good to be able to finally ask you some of these questions I’ve been asking for so long. I might get some answers now and understand. I mean war and famine and all those innocent kids that die from this that and the other thing. Not so much in Australia of course. Mind you I’d like to know why you let the criminals and creeps and politicians and people get away with so much and the churches don’t do anything cos, well, you never say anything much to us down there these days do you? That’s why I’m enjoying Heaven so much. I get to hear why all this stuff happens at last. Like these earthquakes and volcanoes and floods that happen and you just stay silent and when people die from cancer and there’s no cure and it’s like you don’t care. Of course I know you do care, but it’s cos you don’t say anything when people ask. You know the silence isn’t the best strategy for you. In my opinion I think you’d be much more popular if you would actually speak to people when they talk to you. All due respect and everything but it’s just good manners really. I mean you used to talk to people and it really would be nice if you’d do it a bit more these days. I know I asked you about stuff so often but never got a single reply, never so much as a yes or a no, a nod or wink, nothing. It’s not like I didn’t ask. Not like I didn’t talk to you. I talked to you all the time, asked about everything and never got an answer. For my whole life I talked to you and nothing. (God leaves sadly)… That’s why I’ve looked forward to heaven so much so I could finally get some answers which would be really good. You know I really do like it here, suits me down to the ground really. Love to chat to some angels sometime. Ask them a few questions too. See, I’m not sure about where angels fit into the whole scheme of things, or dinosaurs and that whole creation evolution thing. It will be good to finally get some answers. Oh you’ve gone. Well that’s a bit rude isn’t it!
Lights down quickly.
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