The full version about 2 and a half hours. This simple typography only works if the reader makes allowances. Once again, brackets for the radio announcer, parentheses for original material that is being excluded, boldface to indicate a cut version. A lone palm tree grows by a city gate. A small crowd of men in Middle Eastern dress are seated on benches.
Center stage are rocks and piles of ashes.
This single scene, with Heaven, Earth, and Pit will suffice for the entire play. The angels and the messengers, when their part in the Prologue is done, join the audience. With their prompting, and with the help of cue sheets, the audience is encouraged to become part of the Crowd, the ancient jury before whom the Trial of Job will take place. The Trashman with his basket of ashes enters from the city gate followed by two men carrying a man's body on a makeshift stretcher. A well dressed Job and his wife enter opposite.