The Angel Eaters Trilogy

by Johnna Adams

 

The Angel Eaters Trilogy follows three generations of a family cursed with the gift of raising people from the dead.  These angel eaters, like a sin eater in reverse, eat the goodness off a dead body, bringing the deceased back from the dead brimming with evil and intent on mayhem.

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Part I - Angel Eaters

 

3 Males, 3 Females, 1 Any Gender

 

Synopsis:  Set in the 1930's during the Oklahoma dustbowl.  A young girl who speaks to angels with the voices of birds.  A mother who hires a pair of con men to resurrect her dead husband.  An unlikely love affair between a desperately pregnant woman and a despicably charming carnival barker.  A false resurrectionist who is chained by the neck to the house of a family cursed with a genuine power to raise the dead.  A body that is transformed against its will into a dark weapon of dread - the angel eater!

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Part II - Rattlers

 

5 Males, 2 Females

 

Synopsis:  Set in the 1970s, Oklahoma.  A snake wrangler kidnaps a preacher, suspending a cage of live rattlers over his head, for a woman willing to sell her soul in exchange for her dead sister.  A mother who lives for revenge.  An alcoholic oil pipe layer with flashes of unwelcome clairvoyance.  An undertaker who weeps for the woman he embalms. And one innocent boy surrounded by people with hearts like rattlers.

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Part III - 8 Little Antichrists

 

4 Males, 3 Females, 2 Any Gender

 

Synopsis:  Set in 2048, Los Angeles.  The final generation of angel eaters in a futuristic Los Angeles.  A paranoid drifter trying to escape visions of gold horns and Armageddon.  An actuary thrust into a nightmare landscape of vicious angels and unwanted inheritance.  A breeder with ambitious needs reaching far beyond the vat of amniotic fluid she is suspended in.  A private investigator trying to find her clone sister's killer.  Fallen angels and inmates roaming a private prison built beneath a Disneyland theme park attraction. 

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Nominee - Outstanding Full Length Script - 2009 Innovative Theatre Awards

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