The Son of the Morning

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The Son of the Morning is a play written by Lolu Ajayi and Cornelis Krottje and first performed by the Groningen University Theatre Society in 2000.

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The Archangel Gabriel announces to the Heavenly host that God created man and has exalted him above all beings. Some of the angels support the Divine Director's creation and some don't. Beëlzebub, right hand angel of the now depressed Lucifer, sends his two helpers, Belial and Apollyon, to Earth to see if man really is that glorious and beautiful. It turns out that man is more of a Neanderthal than a glorious being. Woman on the other hand seems to be very intelligent and beautiful and completely astonishes the two angels. Beëlzebub convinces Lucifer that man is no more than a talking monkey. He files a complaint at the Celestial Bureau of Internal Affairs but is ignored, which makes him decide to go to war against God. He loses and he and his angels fall down to Hell. Beëlzebub convinces him that he should take revenge against God, so he turns himself into a snake and seduces Eve and Adam to eat the apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. At first, the Angels think man is doomed but then realise that man is better off than Lucifer and his demons.