Header-Premise
Everyone is invited to the
greatest trial in history
and everyone is expected
to cast
their vote.
In Defense Of Cain
A
Two-Act
Play
By
Jack
Winterbottom
bios
The
Players
Cain
OK,
so I was a spoiled brat, but so are most first children. Abel always
got the best of things and I was jealous over his being the favored
one. When he tended the sheep in the field he would whistle his tune
while I labored plowing, planting and harvesting the food. My mom was
good to me and so was dad when he wasn’t out hunting, which he usually
was. You have to understand the Lord requires a blood sacrifice of a
lamb to atone for sin, so when Abel wouldn’t give me a lamb, what was I
to do? Either I find a way to get a blood sacrifice or I die in my sins
and end up separated from the Lord for an eternity. I love the Lord.
Adam
I
was created by the Lord; the first human w ith Hi s Spirit
within.
Protected from the Cro-Magnon man by a fence, I tended the garden. Most
of my learning came from experience so I’m not really educated in the
sense of your world. Just think of me as an ignorant farmer. I asked
G-d to create a helpmate. This he did from the dust of the ground and
called her name Lilith. It didn’t take long for us to part our ways
after I insisted on how to make love. She promptly sprouted wings and
flew away. Alone again, I convinced the Lord to create me another
helpmate. This time He did so from my rib and I named her Eve. She was
such a loving helpmate. So it was that after Eve and I ate the
forbidden fruit we were cast from the Garden into the world of the
Cro-Magnons. Due to the death of our son Abel, Eve’s personality
changed. I’ll admit I changed too. I enjoyed my Cro-Magnon friends and
took to drinking their ouzo. Of course, you can understand our sadness
due to the loss of our son Abel. That made things worse with
Eve
and she ran off with a young, handsome Cro-Magnon half her age. Such is
life!
Eve
As
I arose from the ground, the most alluring man stood
before me. I
was given to Adam to help and enjoy the pleasures of life.
I
remember that day I first met Satan. I thought his suggestion for me to
eat the apple would make me like G-d, whom I admired. How
wrong I
was. I caused Adam to eat and we were expelled from the Garden.
I
named out first child Cain and the second Abel. When Cain removed Abel
from this world. Adam and I never were the same. Adam started hanging
around with his Cro-Magnon buddies, drinking and all.
I
became attracted to the Cro-Magnon world too. They were interesting
even though they did not have His Spirit within them. I left Adam for
an erudite artist. He was young, husky, with long curly hair, and
experienced in the art of making love. It felt so good to leave hearth
and home to fill my sails with change and excitement.
Yes,
I went back to Adam from time to time. He spurned my
conciliatory
desires each time. So we lived apart; he in his world of
alcohol;
me in my world of dancing and love.
It
was sad but so much fun!
Satan
Whatta
revolting development; to be the top banana in
heaven to the banana top
on earth! I had good reason to revolt against the Lord, but no one will
listen to me. Lilith loved me and I can’t understand why she now finds
me revolting. I’m the Antonio Bendares of Hell! I love women but I go
both ways. I may have my faults but I’m really a nice guy once you get
to know me. That’s why the earth people sing all the good songs about
me. Anyway, revenge is sweet and I’m proud to be the cause of the fall
of Adam and Eve and the catastrophic consequences that followed. I’m
also proud to be the prosecuting attorney of all those earth people who
sin against the Lord. Who knows better than I how bad they are.
Lilith
You
wouldn’t believe! After being conscio us for only
seven days and
preparing to rearrange the garden, this guy walks up to me and
introduces himself as Adam. Then he immediately starts telling me how
we make love. The nerve of him! So who gave him the right to be the one
on top? Hasn’t he ever heard of woman’s liberation? I had to
distance myself from this clueless sap.
I
sprouted wings and flew over the garden wall and into Satan’s arms.
What a mistake that was. I wish I could have Adam back.
Johnny
You
know me. I’m the best defense attorney that ever lived on earth, and
heaven too. All I want to do is win the trial and if I don’t, I’m outta
here!
The
Lord
I
am.
Raphael
I
came from heaven to the Garden of Eden to warn Adam and Eve that Satan,
let what I wish on him come true, even half, just ten percent, he was
on the way to tempt them. I told em. If you wanna remain happy you
gotta do what the big k'naker, The Almighty, commands or you're gonna
die. Did they listen to me? That schmuck Adan ruined the whole creation.
