“Devilish” play for adults at the Bliss this weekend
If you could make a deal with the devil to have your will done, what would you do? That is a question that triggers rampant ideas and possibilities and it is the concept behind the new play coming to the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts called “Devilish”. It may sound a tad controversial, but the ultimate message of the play is a positive one… in fact it is about finding your way back to God when you make mistakes. The plot is a modernized version of a story that dates back to the seventeenth century about a Doctor named Faustus, who felt that this world was not enough for him and so he made a deal with the devil to experience extraordinary things. “Devilish” features a cast of two, Diane Garcia and Joey Clarke, who is also the author and director. According to Clarke, it’s an adults only play that is sure to capture the audience from beginning to end.
Joey Clarke, Author/Director/Actor, Devilish
“Of course in the case of our play, the Faust character is a woman, an intellectual woman, a medical doctor who has decided she knows enough about this life, this physical life and she tries to call a demon from hell using some rituals that she finds in a book and it’s not working. Then there’s a knock on the door and there’s a man there who looks suspiciously like me because I’m playing that part and he says that he is in fact a demon from hell. He spends the first act convincing her or trying to convince her of this and at the end it seems that given the circumstances she’d like to give it a try. The second act takes place one year later when another person knocks on her door. She has changed; it’s been a very interesting year for her and she has changed and another man knocks on the door and says he is looking for a patient from his mental institution who may have been killing people in the neighborhood of this doctor Faustus and that is when it really begins to get interesting.”
Joey Clarke
“The message of it is hope and redemption. It’s about how God really loves you no matter the mistakes you make and we want to be entertaining, we want to attract the audience, we want to keep it interesting. We don’t want people sitting down for ninety minutes and being bored do we? So part of the study of evil is getting through there and getting to a place of hope because many of us make mistakes in our life and think oh we’re just too terrible, God doesn’t love us anymore. It’s not really for a younger audience; under eighteens it might be a little complicated for them. But really at the end of the day there is nothing in this play that you could see on cable television. In fact, it would go on cable television cause it’s too light.”
The play opens at the Bliss on Saturday at eight o’clock p.m. and there will be an encore presentation on Sunday evening at six. Entrance fee is ten dollars.
