A timely piece of theatre away from all that social realism of the late 20th century.
ACT ONE
Somewhere in Europe, hundreds of years ago a messenger (the Sag) appears among
an oppressed feudal people. The people fearfully, cynically, cautiously desperately
choose the Sag to lead them to a better place. They venture away from all
they have known and into the wilderness where the Sag dreams they are to leave
on a sky ship to paradise. The ship to take them arrives but the people fear
to board. The sag urges them to board and believing he has convinced them
enters the door of the ship in blind elation. The people are still hesitant
and the door closes, so the ship and the Sag leave to the heavens without
them.
ACT TWO
In act two we find the Sag on a beach sometime in the early 21st century.
He has amnesia and is recalling his abduction by aliens. He doesn't remember
any details but feels connected to a life there on the beach. He meets two
girls who have seen him around - they point him toward a beach bar where he
realises he once frequented. He is known there to all the other regulars.
The regulars believe the Sag to have been away for a while and they soon realise
(including the Sag ) that the person they knew is not this person they find
back among them. The Sag is touched and transformed by his abduction and as
he meets and recalls his former friends he wisely/magically prepares them
to board the mothership bound once again for paradise.