CDT157
Creation Story Verbatim - Studio recording
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(2) CDs: 12.95
This is a studio recording of the classic play on Creation featuring the Lord God Herself and her trusty sidekick, the Archangel Gabriel. It's read by Grace Kelly Rivera and Robbert Trice who have been working with and perfecting these roles for over a dozen years.
Music and various sound effects have been added to accentuate the drama. They also help to convey the special mood of this classic on voluntary evolution. The result is a compelling soundscape which supports this eternal dialogue and divine comedy.
It has been said that all conversations can be heard in this conversation.
Synopsis
The transcript presents a surreal, absurdist dialogue between "the Lord" and the Archangel Gabriel, filled with witty banter, theological musings, and biting satire about the human condition. The conversation weaves between divine frustrations with humanity, musings on existential absurdities, and humorous misunderstandings between the two characters. The irreverent dialogue explores religion, evolution, authority, obedience, and free will, with both grand metaphysical insights and petty squabbles.
Summary
The dialogue opens with an irreverent complaint about language and naming, moving swiftly into a fast-paced interchange between the Lord and Gabriel. The Lord exhibits frustration at humanity’s lack of reverence, cultural obsessions, and failure to evolve as intended. He humorously considers changing his name to "John" due to humanity’s apparent preference for Johns throughout history. His interactions with Gabriel are filled with dry wit, wordplay, and exaggerated indignation.
Gabriel challenges the Lord's proclamations, questioning the necessity of behaviors such as genuflection and reverence. The Lord proposes returning to Earth, taking on a new persona as a divine messenger or even a movie star in order to get through to humanity, acknowledging that past interventions—including biblical narratives—haven’t had the intended effect. The conversation oscillates between comedic absurdity and moments of existential clarity, such as the proposition that angels can't evolve or that the Lord himself may be trapped within creation.
The dialogue culminates in an apocalyptic twist: the Lord reveals that the end of creation is imminent, leading to a philosophical exchange on free will, human destructiveness, and divine responsibility. The discussion questions whether humanity is redeemable and if divinity itself can ever escape the absurdity of its own creation. The meta-theatrical structure and back-and-forth repartee echo Beckett or Pinter, blending high metaphysics with lowbrow comedy.
Keywords & Key Phrases
- Divine frustration
- The Lord and Archangel Gabriel
- Cosmic absurdity
- Evolutionary failure
- Self-initiating evolution
- Metaphysical satire
- Divine intervention
- Theatrical deity
- Irreverent theology
- Celestial bureaucracy
- Involuntary creation
- Failed messengers
- Existential paradox
- The end of creation
- Three-brained creatures
- Organic conditioning
- Divine comedy
- Satirical revelation
- Heaven’s hierarchy
- Higher laws of existence
- Failed enlightenment
- Theatrical religion
- Unheeded prophecy
Graphic Prompt
A surreal, celestial courtroom where the Lord and Archangel Gabriel engage in an animated debate. The Lord, an enigmatic, bearded figure draped in a luminous robe, gestures dramatically while Gabriel, a winged yet exasperated angel, pinches the bridge of his nose in frustration. Around them, planets spin out of alignment, sacred texts crumble into dust, and an old film projector flickers images of biblical scenes interspersed with surreal, absurdist imagery. The atmosphere is both cosmic and comedic, evoking the theatrical absurdity of divine rulings mixed with human farce.