Intimacy and Other Plays by Bradshaw Thomas;

Author:Bradshaw, Thomas;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 2015-09-24T00:00:00+00:00

SCENE 4

Job is sitting alone in his throne-like chair. Sarah sits silently by his side. Job has a stone look on his face. A messenger enters.

JOB: What news do you have for me?

MESSENGER: Your son, Matthew, was found dead in the field. He took his own life.

(Pause.)

JOB: Thank you.

(The messenger exits. Job’s grief is internalized. He’s beyond shock.)

(Softly) Oh God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why hast thou forsaken me? I have been a righteous and faithful servant who has risen above all iniquity and obeyed your will. Why hast thou forsaken me?

SARAH: How can you still have faith in God after what’s happened?

JOB: You must not lose faith, Sarah. God is good and God loves us. I know he has a plan.

SARAH: If he does have a plan then it’s an evil plan. Either God doesn’t exist or he’s a malicious God.

JOB: Don’t blasphemy God’s name, Sarah. We must have complete trust and faith in him and more will be revealed. Look at all he’s given to us.

SARAH: Look at all he’s taken away!

JOB: We can’t get too attached to earthly possessions, Sarah.

SARAH: Are you saying that our children were nothing but earthly possessions?

(Pause.)

God made a contract with the righteous. It said that if we followed his word than we would be rewarded.

JOB: We have been rewarded. We must accept God’s will for us no matter what that is.

SARAH: What about our children? Why did he take away our children?

JOB: Maybe our children were being punished for their sins. Have you thought about that? Maybe our children were being punished for their iniquity.

SARAH: I don’t accept that. I think that you’re an idiot!

JOB: God sees all, Sarah. God is a just God. Our children must have deserved the punishment that God inflicted.

SARAH: You’re a goddamn idiot! Our children were innocent! I know they were!

JOB: The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

SARAH: Fuck you and fuck God!

JOB: I can’t love a woman who curses God.

SARAH: And I can’t be with a man who refuses to defend our children.

(Pause.)

Fuck God. Do you hear me? Fuck God. Fuck God.

JOB (Almost in a whisper): Stop saying that.

SARAH (Moving closer to him, threatening): Why don’t you make God stop me? Huh? Why doesn’t your God stop me if he’s so powerful?

FUCK YOUR GOD!

JOB (Cowering and covering his ears): You’re going to Hell!

SARAH: I’d rather be in Hell!

(She spits on Job and exits. Job gets on his knees and reaches out to God.)

JOB: Why hast thou forsaken me?

(Pause.)

May the day perish on which I was born,

And the night in which it was said,

“A male child is conceived”

May that day be darkness;

May God above not seek it,

Nor the light shine upon it.

May darkness and the shadow of death claim it;

May a cloud settle on it;

May the blackness of the day terrify it,

As for that night, may darkness seize it;

May it not rejoice among the days of the year,

May it not come into the number of the months.

Oh, may that night be barren.

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