Authors Note’s
The play is based on parts of a true story that happened on this date bellow. I was in school at the University of Tennessee bragging to a professor Dr. LeeAnn Grubbs about my new child that was on the way. LeeAnn being a good friend of mine wanted me to keep her posted on Delano the baby I call him that was still not yet born, and me and my wife Tammy Jeffries did not know if the child would be a boy or a girl. I was just hoping for a boy because I have 2 girls are ready Allison and Ashley and of course a step Son named Jonathon. My dad is Franklin D. Jeffries and I am Franklin D. Jeffries II. I hoped to have a III but that did not happen on this day. We are named after Franklin D. Roosevelt too. However, my heart is racing out of my chest at this time just writing this Authors note at 1220am on September the 29th 2004. My wife had a doctors appointment today at 250pm and I could not attend because I had missed too many classes are ready from being sick. At the time my wife asked me to go to the doctor I new she was disappointed I did not go. Our three year old daughter Ashley went with her instead. I got home from school and I called my wife cell phone as soon as I got in to hear the good news.
My wife answers the phone. I make a joke as always to make her laugh. What I said to make her laugh I do not know now, but will always remember the news she gave me. She started weeping and said, “Dale this is not the time to joke! Our baby is dead.” My heart stopped as I went into shock, like I feel now. My reaction to deny or make us feel comfort was say; the baby was only an embryo. Honey, the baby didn’t even have a heart yet. She played my game of comfort. We both were silent for a few seconds. She started to talk as I controlled my out rage of pain and sorrow. As she kept talking I started getting even more thoughts of rage in my head, so I had a silent cry on the phone and she didn’t even know, but knew and felt my silent hurt. I do not even know anymore to the story then this above. My child that went to the doctor today I don’t even know what she seen or heard. However, how do you tell a three year old that has been excited about a baby in mommies’ tummy?
After nine hours of painful thoughts I knew the first hour I was going to write this play no mater how much I hurt or it kills me. The truth needs to be told about children we affect in this world from start to finish. I hope this play puts a finish on all abortion thoughts too. At least put the truth to what life means. Have you ever thought about the children alive today that almost got aborted? The ones today that think “people think I should have been killed because my mother got raped, but they decided to have me anyway and people still want me dead.” This Play is dedicated to three (III) kinds of people and they are children who die at birth, children who suffer today with aborted connections and last to the president of the United States who makes reasonable laws and better judgments that affect abortion. To death be truth as Angels go to heaven.
The most Famous
Play wrote on September 28, 2004
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Angels go to Heaven
By,
Dale Jeffries
Copyright © 2004,
Dalebay Productions
Cast or Characters
GOD: The good inter voice.
DEVIL: The bad outer voice.
DOCTOR: Abortion Doctor.
DALE: A man in his thirties.
MARY: Pregnant Women.
DELANO: Child. III Three
PROTAGS: People that don’t kill children.
ANTAGS: People that kill children.
Scene
(Left Stage a fancy living room in a house)(Right Stage a rain forest)
Time
(30 years after (my birth II Born 1974) III died) 2004
Setting: In a living room of a house.
AT RISE: Curtin rise a man is sitting in a chair looking at his self in a mirror just down the hall. Above him is a window that show the night stars. He hears two voices in his head. The man looks depressed with no reaction to the voices.
Devil
I should go get drunk.
God
What could make things better?
Devil
Waking up in a parking lot?
God
My family needs me?
Devil
You family don’t need you! Wreck your car and splatter blood everywhere.
Then disappear for three months.
God
Don’t think that way!
Devil
You do won’t to find out who cares- don’t you?
Dale (looks up at the window)
(Stage left lights fade out and rain, thunder and lighting starts)
(Dale positions his self to the audience then the lights fade in on stage right)
(The setting is in a rain forest at night)
(Dale stands in the rain holding a long knife down by his leg)
PROTAGS (standing left of Dale chanting)
Let them live! Let them Live!
ANTAGS (Standing right of Dale chanting)
KILL THEM! KILL THEM
(As the chant continues the Devils voice appears)
Devil
What are you going to do now? Your child is dead!? Dead! I said DEAD!
(the chanting starts to fade out slowly along with the lights on the chanters)
God
Listen to me Dale, Look up to me, Angles go to Heaven.
Dale (looks up slowly as the light appears)
(a bright light appears in the sky like and angel)
God
Dale you see your child is ok now.
Dale (drops the knife still looking up)
(The bright light fades out)
(loud thunder and a bolt of lighting strike)
Devil
Dale! , Dale! , Can’t you see your child is in your wife Dead! , I said Dead!
(Lights fade out along with the rain and thunder)
(stage left again, lights fade in
while Dale is sitting in the chair
Looking up still out the window)
Dale
(looks slowly into the mirror and points to it)
What the hell is the matter with you?!
Who me! Yeah me! I must be going out of my mind.
(Dale gets up and starts walking)
Devil (in a loud eco voice)
Dale!
Dale (stops dead in his tracks and looks around)
What! (pause) What! (pause) Who said that?
Devil (still on eco)
God!
Dale
You sound like the Devil, Not God?
Devil
I am God.
Dale
Well if you are God then tell me something?
Devil
Anything for you Dale, just let me guide you.
Dale
O.K. God what ever you want, just tell me something.
Devil
First accept this check card, so I can guide you better.
(a cardboard box falls from the sky into Dales hands)
Dale
Cool, what is this?
Devil
It is The Mark.
Dale
The Mark of What!
Devil
The Mark of the beast, Open it, I will answer all of your questions.
Dale
How does it work?
Devil
When the box is opened you belong to me and I will guide you.
Dale
O.K God, I will follow you anyway.
(Dale opens the box why a God says in a loud voice)
(Eco off)
God
NO! NO! NO!
(strobe lights are flashing on and
off stage everywhere when
the box is opened up)
(black out)
(lights fade in and Dale is looking up at the window in his chair again)
Dale
(looks slowly into the mirror and points to it)
What the hell is the matter with you?!
Who me! Yeah me! I am going out of my mind.
I thought I just dreamed I sold my soul to the Devil!
(points to the mirror)
You did. You did. You did.
Dale (Walks away Scratches his head looking confused)
Did I?
God
Dale!
Dale (looks up)
Hey Man! I’m not going through this again!
God
You can change your mind anytime Dale.
Dale
I’m not opening anymore boxes God!?
God
Your box has are ready been opened!
Dale
What do you mean my box has are ready been opened?
God
You gave your soul to the Devil.
Dale
I did no such things. I gave my soul to you God.
God
That was the Devil Dale. You opened the Box.
Dale (drops to his knees with a plea)
NO!
How can I change the thing I can not change!
How can I be deceived by this life!
(Stage left Fade out)
(Stage right rain fades in)
(this time chanters are not seen)
ANTAGS (Start chanting loud)
KILL THEM! KILL THEM!
PROTAGS (chanting louder then ANTAGS)
LET THEM LIVE! LET THEM LIVE!
(Lights fade in- Mary is lying on a doctors table Crying)
(Notes: for this part--- strobe lights again--- while doctor is giving her an abortion)
(I will write this part baste on what my wife goes through today)
(September 29, 2004 my wife is having our child taking out of her that died)
(Miscarriage is just a comfort word for the living)
(This is my end when I get to it)
At the end Delano walks in while Dale is on the couch and Delano runs in yelling stop! Stop! Stop! Dale jumps up and shots him dead.
Delano falls down and dies
(Black out)