Heaven/Hell

Heaven/Hell is an evening of two one acts including Steven Walters’s A Mysterious Way and David Mamet’s Bobby Gould in Hell. Both plays deal with religious and spiritual themes, and their thought-provoking nature inspired this pairing.

In A Mysterious Way, two strangers waiting for a train engage in the obligatory “fill the silence” chit-chat. But as the conversation turns to family, then religion, we start to see the reasons behind the cliché warning all parents offer up to their children, “Don’t ever talk to strangers.”

Bobby Gould in Hell takes one of Mamet’s favorite characters straight to Hell. Once there, he is challenged to prove that he is a good man in order to go home. Countered by a devil (who’d rather be fishing) and a scorned ex-lover, Bobby finds that pleading his case is harder than it seems.