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Going to a Place Where You Already Are

  • Bekah Brunstetter
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573705526

"Belief, mortality and the possibility of heaven. Playwright Bekah Brunstetter manages to treat these subjects seriously, drawing out their emotional resonance, while making them entertaining... A terrific new play."

Los Angeles Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Is there a heaven? Joe says no; it's all a bunch of hokum. His wife, Roberta, has always claimed to agree. But lately she's beginning to wonder, especially when they find themselves in church a lot, having reached the age when funerals are more frequent than weddings. Their granddaughter, Ellie, doesn't have time in her own busy life to ponder the after-life. But when mortality confronts them, her grandmother's claim to have gone to heaven and back doesn't sound so crazy after all.

With thoughtful storytelling and quiet wit, Brunstetter looks at beginnings, endings -- and an enigmatic angel.
REVIEWS:

"Belief, mortality and the possibility of heaven. Playwright Bekah Brunstetter manages to treat these subjects seriously, drawing out their emotional resonance, while making them entertaining... A terrific new play."

 Los Angeles Times

"Brunstetter has a gift for words... humor and a sense of reassurance that rises gently out of authentic emotions and situations."

 DC Theatre Scene

"Sweetly dramatized without being preachy either for or against the adherence to faith, Going to a Place Where You Already Are creates a safe space for love and goodness to thrive."

 Broadway World

Premiere Production: Going to a Place Where You Already Are premiered at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, CA in March 2016, under the direction of Marc Masterson.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors

  • ROBERTA - 66
    JOE - 70, her husband
    ELLIE - 30s, Joe's granddaughter
    JONAS - 30s, a stand up in a wheelchair and the irony is not lost on him
    AN ANGEL - an ageless quality

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    Is there a heaven? Joe says no; it's all a bunch of hokum. His wife, Roberta, has always claimed to agree. But lately she's beginning to wonder, especially when they find themselves in church a lot, having reached the age when funerals are more frequent than weddings. Their granddaughter, Ellie, doesn't have time in her own busy life to ponder the after-life. But when mortality confronts them, her grandmother's claim to have gone to heaven and back doesn't sound so crazy after all.

    With thoughtful storytelling and quiet wit, Brunstetter looks at beginnings, endings -- and an enigmatic angel.

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