The Staring Match

For a real thought provoking encounter with the performing arts that will have you talking for days, don’t miss this year’s production of “The Staring Match”!  Join us and see  if you can figure out WHO the “real angel” is before it’s reveled in the play.  Plan your family “date night” with Mountain View High School’s first play of the year,  “The Staring Match”

Summary:  “With great humility and sincerity, the townspeople of a small ranch community gather in a local church to pray for much needed rain.  Soon, there is a knock at the door and in comes a man dressed completely in white.  Though no one at the meeting has ever seen him before, he greets all of them by name and asks about their affairs.  Gradually a suspicion creeps around the assembly:  Can Mr. White – that’s what he calls himself – be an angel of the Lord?  His announcement that he’s been sent to help them find a well convinces them.  They eagerly crowd about him when there is another knock at the door, and a second man enters, this one dressed completely in black.   With the same courtesy and affability displayed by Mr. White, Mr. Black, announces that he too has been sent to help the community find a well – and lets it be know that he is an angel of the Lord.  It’s quite apparent that only one of these two gentlemen is an angel and the other must be carefully avoided.  But which?  To solve the “dilemma” a staring match” is decided upon, with Mr. White and Mr. Black the contestants.  In the end the real angel is revealed, water is discovered and the problems of the community are solved to everyone’s satisfaction.”

- Jerry McNeely  - Dramatists Play Services