Making God Laugh

Play

Writers: Sean Grennan

Overview

Show Information

Category
Play
Number of Acts
2
First Produced
2011
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Settings
Contemporary, Unit/Single Set
Time & Place
A suburban living room between 1980 and 2010.
Cast Size
small
Orchestra Size
None
Dancing
None
Licensor
Ideal for
Community Theatre, Ensemble Cast, Mostly Male Cast, Small Cast
Casting Notes
Mostly male cast
Includes elderly, mature adult, adult, young adult characters

Synopsis

One family. Three kids. Thirty years. That’s the basic setup for Sean Grennan’s Making God Laugh. Each scene captures a holiday at the suburban home of Ruthie and Bill as they welcome home their children, each now very different adults (if in name only). There’s aspiring actress Maddie, former football star-turned-wannabe-Renaissance-man Richard, and priest Thomas. Over the course of three decades, each member of the family changes in ways both big and small. Ideal for community theatres and small performance spaces, Making God Laugh captures the zeitgeist of its specific decades with a character-driven story that’s equal parts sitcom and domestic drama.

Lead Characters


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