POPE JOAN II

by Pat Montley

a professional play reading

Urged by apparitions of her namesakes St. Joan and Joan Rivers (channeling the 9th-century Pope Joan I) and armed with an infusion of the Life Force, Sister Joan—faster than a speeding angel, more powerful than a prayer, able to leap clerical hierarchies in a single bound—blackmails her way to becoming pope, so she can fight the never ending battle for truth, justice, gender equality, and the American way by transforming the Catholic Church into a liberal democracy, thus saving the world from overpopulating.