A Sneak Peak at Goddess People: A New Dramatic Play by Mike Broemmel

DENVER - Dec. 31, 2014 - PRLog -- I interviewed Mike Broemmel while he was in Ft. Lauderdale to meet with the production team for one of his latest plays, Goddess People. The subject of my interview was this play that Broemmel currently is writing. Despite the fact that the script is not completed, the play is slated for premieres in the three U.S. cities in the spring of 2015, which begged my first question about feeling the pressure. Goddess People opens in Ft. Lauderdale, Scottsdale and Denver in April and May 2015.

“I suppose having an incomplete play slated for production in a few months is less than ideal,” Broemmel remarked. “On the other hand, I would rather have something I’m working on slated for production as opposed to be working on something that might never find a theater and an audience.”

Goddess People represents the third drama written by Broemmel, following The Row and The Baptism. The Baptism will also run in Florida in 2015. According to Broemmel, Goddess People presents a unique challenge to him as a playwright.

“The play unfolds in real time, over the course of 90 minutes. Therefore, I lack the luxury of being able to move the plot forward with time hops. Telling a tale in real time is not as easy as it might sound on first blush,” Broemmel said.

Although he refused to reveal a great deal about the plot, he did explain that the inspiration for the play grew out of the death of journalist James Foley at the hands of ISIS terrorists. “I had to write an article about that horrendous execution of a good man,” Broemmel said. “What struck me about James’ final moments was the fact that he maintained a sense of courage and dignity that really left me in awe. It really hit home to me how differently one individual to another faces his or her ultimate demise.”

According to Broemmel, Goddess People is set in a shop in an unidentified location. As the play unfolds, it becomes apparent that the six cast members are trapped in the shop and possibly facing their own ultimate endings. “Goddess People brings together six very different people in a shared experience that may be a course to their own ultimate endings,” Broemmel said. He made it clear that the play is not a thriller or a shoot-it-out thriller. “If anything, Goddess People is something of a quiet play, a somewhat contemplative play, about six people coming to terms with life and perhaps even death.”

In his first play to see the stage, The Row, Broemmel took on the subject of capital punishment in an up close and personal way. In The Baptism, a tense drama, Broemmel addressed intolerance taking to the extreme. “I actually had reservations about bringing The Baptism to the stage because of the way the story unfolds. It is a difficult production for an audience in a number of different ways,” Broemmel said.

In addition to Goddess People, Broemmel also has a comedy heading to the stage in 2015 entitled Six Joan Crawfords. “Honestly, after what really have been three tough dramas, a comedy is a welcome break,” Broemmel noted.