Cast: 4, any
Doubling: The actor playing The Gooney Revenant should also play The Last Easter Islander; the actor playing The Roger Waters should also play Robert Oppenheimer.
While some of the characters are loosely inspired by real people, there is no need to correlate the performers to any age, gender, or ethnicity. In fact, the show is more fun without correlation.
Act I—The Show Trial Eschatology
Characters:
Ralph Wiley—the scientist who invents polyvinylidene chloride in 1933.
The Angel of Canopic Jars—an angel, it is powerful and relentlessly calm.
The Gooney Revenant—a revenant, the vengeful corpse of a sea bird.
The Roger Waters—a rock star, sardonic, egomaniac.
Act II—An Easter Island of the Mind
Characters:
Ralph Wiley—again.
The Angel of Canopic Jars—again.
The Last Easter Islander—a fanatic, unrelentingly upbeat.
Robert Oppenheimer—the destroyer of worlds, a scientist in a white lab coat.