The primary goal of the play development process, as it is called, is to figure out which story we want to tell and whether we’re telling it clearly. There’s the sequence of events (the plot), the nature of the relationships (the characters), and the escalating conflict and the…

Prodigal God has been in development since August 2002. At that time, Brian Doerksen and Christopher Greco drafted a story outline for what they hoped would become a full-length musical theatre piece. Their starting point was a man looking back on his life with regret and with an opportunity…