We saw such a fun modern-day rendition of the Prodigal Son at church this afternoon. The Potters Players did a great job.
I thought the props were very creative too.
While waiting for the show to begin, members of the cast threw beach balls back and forth to the audience, and clapped and danced to rock and roll music from the 70's.
We were welcomed by the lady who wrote and directed the play.
The younger brother doesn't want to work in his dad's pizza parlor, and asks for his half of the inheritance so he can travel the world and play air guitar.
The big screen TV on the wall plays a video of the younger
brother boarding a plane and traveling to California in style.
When he gets there he joins a group of wannabe musicians as an air guitarist, and squanders his money on girls and extravagant living.
When the money runs out, the friends do too, and in desperation, he gets a job selling hotdogs on the boardwalk.
He can't sell any, so he gets fired. Hungry and penniless, he dreams of a slice of pizza, and decides to go home and ask his dad to give him any kind of job at all.
Once again we watched a video. This time, of his slow, arduous trip home, walking and thumbing rides all the way.
Meanwhile, back at the pizza parlor, his dad keeps cleaning the
window and looking out of it in hopes he might see his son coming home. When he sees him, he runs to embrace him, and orders the kitchen staff to prepare a giant pizza to celebrate.
At first the elder brother is upset, accusing his father of never letting him have a pizza party with his friends, but in the end he also joins in the celebration.
On our way out after the performance, we also got to celebrate with an assortment of bite size pizzas.
