The ensconced veteran reluctant to give up the spotlight. The impatient successor nipping at his heels. This scenario has launched plots from “Paradise Lost” to “The Late Shift.”
David Rambo’s 1999 play “God’s Man in Texas,” now at the Blank Theatre under the direction of the writer, sets the age-old power struggle in a church.
But not just any church: The (fictional) Rock Baptist Church in Houston is more like a three-ring circus. The sermons of its charismatic pastor, Dr. Philip Gottschall (Ted Heyck), are televised. U.S. presidents — except Bill Clinton, who “would not be well-received” — regularly worship here.