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SOON, a play

Originally staged in Europe and the United States in 1998 and 2001 respectively, SOON is a fever-dream verbal avalanche about the joys, sorrows, and disasters of “creative religiosity.” Inspired by the Branch Davidian Conflict of 1993, the play explores the turbulent spiritual needs and the tortured reasoning of sectarian “end-time” Christians in America. Hilarious, moving, and sociologically astute, SOON “touched a naked nerve in contemporary American sensibility” (Western European Stages).

Perfect-bound paperback
85 pages
With an introduction by the author.

“I came to the subject as a writer curious about my country’s freedom of religion and its gun laws. But my study of the events at Waco led to a consideration of “revealed religion” in America generally. And, although the events at Waco were the catalyst, that catastrophe is not the play’s only focus. I have pared away the arcana specific to any one sect or another to focus on what all Christian “end time” denominations, share; namely, a belief that the world is miraculous and God is speaking to us in all sorts of ways.

I came to see that belief systems evolve. And – even more exciting – they evolve communally. Believers argue. This, I found, was really my subject; the sound of that argument, the way it moves, where it breaks, how it fixes itself.”

From the introduction.