Up next, LORDY MERCY, an original comedy, written and performed by OPAT’s Emmy-winning Artistic Director, Richard Camp. Only three performances!

The show is an irreverent, laugh out loud comedy about people who have been dealt the bottom card from the deck but lived, thrived, and survived. “Up until the time I was about five years old,” Richard said, “I thought everyone in the world was deformed in some way, because everyone in my immediate family WAS… a stepdaddy with a crossed eye so you couldn’t tell who he was yellin’ at, a sweet Baptist church piano player with missing fingers who could almost get the chords right, a cousin with a backward club foot who could kick your butt comin’ or goin’ … but nobody pitied them, they were accepted as they were.”

The show’s stepping off point is a five-year old’s first funeral, where he interacts with these characters who “scare the bejesus out of him.” He starts to wrap his young mind around the concept of God at the graveyard ceremony where the pallbearers drop the casket. This is a don't- miss, original piece of work from our esteemed Artistic Director. Only in Ojai do you find this quality of off-Broadway theater.