below is Act IV of the play i am writing called Wake Up & Live. please read Acts I, II & III before reading Act IV. i am always open to any rewrite suggestions.

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jp

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ACT IV Scene 1 SETTING:                                          We are in an unknown location. AT RISE:                                            PUNK is standing on a bare stage. MAN                                                              enters and crosses to PUNK. MAN paints a                                                              dotted line circle around PUNK and then                                                            plants a flag outside of the circle. PUNKWhat the fuck is this? MANHeaven. PUNKBullshit. MANIt is. PUNKWell why haven’t I seen God yet? MANYou don’t have faith. PUNKWell if that mother fucker shows his face then I’ll believe in him. If he still wants to test me and play games with me then he can go to hell. MANYou’re a punk. PUNKSo what’s your point? MANYou don’t deserve to see God. PUNKWhere am I? MANHeaven. PUNKFuck you. Fuck your bullshit. MANYou get what you deserve. PUNKI don’t deserve your bullshit. I don’t deserve God’s bullshit. Is there anyone in this bullshit heaven of yours that can give me an answer that makes sense? MANYou’ll never understand because you don’t have faith. PUNKIs there anyone other than you that I can talk to? MANPastor Paul is God’s public relations man. PUNKWhere do I go to talk to Mr. P.R. man? MANYou can’t go anywhere. PUNKWhy not? MANYou’re not allowed to cross my border. PUNKYou’re border? MANThis is my piece of heaven and that’s your piece of heaven inside those lines. PUNKDoes this bullshit ever end?                             MANYou say bullshit I say faith. PUNKAlright man I’ll tell you what.  I either speak with someone other than you or I cross your border and start a riot in this place you call heaven.                                                                                         MANWait right there.              (MAN exits offstage.) (BACKOUT) (END OF SCENE)     ACT IV Scene II Setting:                                                We are in an unknown location. At Rise:                                                Punk is standing in his circle. PASTOR                                                              PAUL enters and crosses to PUNK.               PASTOR JOHNWhat’s the problem? PUNKWhere am I?               PASTOR PAULHeaven. PUNKWhere is God?                                                                                         PASTOR PAULHere in heaven. PUNKWhy haven’t I seen God yet?               PASTOR PAULYou lack faith. PUNKHave you seen God?               PASTOR PAUL Would you believe me if I told you I have? PUNKWould you give me good reason to?                PASTOR PAULYou have faithless reason and therefore your reason cannot be good. PUNKWell can I please go to hell then?                 PASTOR PAULI wish you could but that’s bad P.R. these days so we phased it out. PUNKI feel like an eternal prisoner.                 PASTOR PAULEvery knee shall bow. PUNKMy knees aren’t bowing.                PASTOR PAULThey will someday. Eventually you’ll get tired of standing. You have all eternity to bow. PUNKBow to God or to you?                 PASTOR PAULBoth.              (MESSENGER enters and crosses to the other side of PUNK.)              MESSENGERYou don’t have to listen to him. PUNKWho should I listen to?              MESSENGERListen to your heart. PUNKAlright then.              (PUNK leaves the stage. PUNK walks past the audience and out through               the exit of the theater.)                PASTOR PAULWhen are you going to learn to stay out of God’s business?             MESSENGERWho’s to say that I’m not sent from God?                PASTOR PAULI am.              (PASTOR PAUL crosses to MESSENGER while pulling out a               knife/dagger and stabs MESSENGER in the heart.)             MESSENGERPeace be with you my brother.               PASTOR PAULYou’re not my brother and I don’t need your peace. God is all I need.               (PASTOR PAUL turns to the audience.)And God is all you need. Do you want to go to heaven or do you want to follow that punk through that door to nowhere? The choice is yours. The nightmare of nowhere or the dream of heaven. All you have to do is wake up from that empty nightmare of your natural reason of your knowledge of good and evil and live in the faithful dream of the supernatural heaven you long for of the cure for your mortality that you wish for. Your wish can come true if you believe. Choose faith over ungodly reason. Wake up and live. Wake up and live.              (Lights fade and Bob Marley’s “Wake Up & Live” begins to play. There              is no curtain call.) (BLACKOUT) (THE END)