←Recommendations of A DIVINE COMEDY

"Awesome Like Crinkle Cut Fries" is a delightfully inventive and touching comedy that imagines God not as a distant judge, but as a weary creator wrestling with purpose, change, and the burden of endless responsibility. Steven G. Martin balances sharp wit, philosophical reflection, and genuine warmth, creating a play that is both thought-provoking and deeply human in its vision of the divine. The result is funny, intelligent, and quietly uplifting.

With a disenchanted God setting off on an open-ended walkabout, and a bureaucratic Angel left holding the bag, this subversive comedy poses the question: Who’s really in charge here? When the exercise of power becomes a self-imposed prison and the valuation of human life is a variable, we’re cut adrift. Then again, if everything’s up for grabs, that can also be awesome.

From the beginning – when God admits he made a mistake (infallibility is something we gave him, apparently) – I was hooked. As the song asks, "What if God was one of us?" Well, he'd need a break too. A great examination of the burden of power and why so many seek to have it and cling to it. Mixing the profound with the (slightly) practical, this is the type of play I try to write every time. A great play with lots of possibilities for stage magic.

The use of language in this play is absolutely gorgeous, with a poetic, symmetrical sensibility you can feel in your body. It's a gorgeous, metatheatrical little exploration of change, quietly but insistently asking big questions about scale, expectations, and more. When must we complete a pattern for the sake of competition, and when is it better to walk away? Just as the definition of "awesome" has changed over the epochs, so can we, and what we believe in - and it starts at the top! Gorgeous!