Photograph--a dramatic poetry presentation for God and Nature

Photograph
A skit
By Jason Weigner
Intro by Abigail DeMaggio
Edited & first performed by Mathew Caliguire, Abigail DeMaggio, Andrea Dotters, and Jason Weigner



Intro
What is right? What is Just? What is true? Do I know? Do you?
Each side so extreme Impossible to find a mean?
Rulers over creation Slaves to preservation
Stewards of God’s Earth Struggling from Birth to death,
To be, to live, to breath, to love, To find love,
To find answers.

Photograph
1 (Black): Now let us take a photograph 2 (Black): Leave out the precious color
3 (White): Left with only black and white 4 (White): Which shade do you find best?

1: Clear cut (axe a tree) 2: Factories
3: Hug a tree (Hug the tree) 4: Save the fleas! (protestor)

1: Development 2: Novelty
3: Sentiment 4: Posterity

1: MP3s 3: Symphonies
2: Internet 4: Parchment

1: God is law 3: God is love
2: Humanity 4: Divinity

1: Mathematical 2: Rational
3: Artistical 4: Supernatural

1: Feminine (Making fun of opposite gender) 3: Masculine (Ditto)
2: CEO 4: Family farm

1: proud to be black 2: proud to be white
3: Disgusted at white 4: Disgusted at black

1: Industrialization 3: Naturalization
2: Meatitarian 4: Vegetarian

1: Evolution 3: Creation

2: Calvin 4: Armenian

1: Consume 3: Simplify

2: Gorging (Belly Pat) 4: Dieting (lick lips longingly)

1: Conceit 2: Independent
3: Reverence (bow to 1) 4: addiction (cling to 2)

1: Self-indulgent 2: Greed (reach in 4’s pocket)
3: Austerity 4: Stingy (Defend pocket)

1: Arrogant 2: Deceptive
3: Depressed 4: False honesty

1: Impatient 2: Restless
3: Timid 4: Passive

1: Rash 3: Coward

2: Waste 4: Horde

1: White 2: Black
3: Black 4: White

All four begin shouting their color for a few seconds until #4 yells “WHITE!” really loud then all are quite, taking their places in a line behind a piece of paper opposite their color.

Each pick up their paper, blank side out when they say their line:
1: People picking either side
2: Spilling blood or trying to hide
3: Why must all be white OR black?
4: The Photo fades out of sight.

Now each flips over their paper while they say their line then stick it to a wall, each piecing their piece of the puzzle to form the globe.
1: Its time to see that in the line
2: A blended peace is there to find
3: The photo snapped in black AND white
4: Is contrast beauty at its height.