Brainstorming
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Companionship,
not romance
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Stone
motif; stone is cold, supposedly unfeeling
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Medusa
and a blind child?
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Turning
people into stone; I’d like this concept, but is it overdone?
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The
child wouldn’t even have to be blind as long as the woman doesn’t look
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Bird
motif; songbirds or ravens?
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Melancholy
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Tenderness;
this one is key
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Loneliness
and despair
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If
I want an ending where the main character dies, I’ll have to build up to it
properly
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Stanislavsky
or Brecht?
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No,
we'll go with Lepage - his projections and philosophies suit the play I'd like
to write better
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Socio-historic
connotations are likely modern or 20th century
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can
I use modern as a socio-historic connotation?
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A
blind child who believes that a statue is talking to him when it is in fact a
bird that lives upon it
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Oh
no wait I like this one; the bird doesn’t have to be a bird, necessarily though
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A
blind person who believes a statue is talking when it’s actually another
person?
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A
blind priest who is told that an angel will speak to him through a statue; it’s
actually a lonely youth?
§
The
youth could try to confess but can’t bring himself to destroy the priest’s
hopes
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One
of the two dies, but who
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“After
joy… sorrow.”
OR
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“No
respectable bird sings with that much feeling”; a story about too much passion
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A
world of stone; concrete; urban
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People
wear bland colors, shades of grey
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In
this world there is a boy who wears color and bears light in his eyes, and he
is ostracized for it
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Perhaps
he paints for a living and finds his grey clothes streaked with color, always
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He
is painfully lonely
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Another
boy, a grey bland one, frequently walks past, but more and more, he stops to
watch
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He
too, is lonely in the crowd of those so like-minded he might as well be alone
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Embittered
and tired; is breathing instead of living
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One
day, he’s accidentally splashed with color and it makes him begin to think
differently
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Potential
exchange
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“What’s
the point of passion when you’ll just die in the end?”
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“What’s
the point of living without passion?
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Stark
lighting to show the whole world; fades
§
isolated
spotlights on each boy
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At
the beginning, the grey boy only hears static as he walks, but as he walks by
the colorful youth, he hears music; he pauses for a moment, but keeps marching
on
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perhaps
the music itself is a cry for companionship
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I
could use Lepage's projections here
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Do
they need names?
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Potential
quotes
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"Why
have be so passionate if you'll just die away?"
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"Why
bother living without passion?"
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They
have conflicting personalities and ideologies, but they find refuge in each
other
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Do
I want one of them to die?
Ideas
to Explore
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companionship
·
isolation
·
refuge
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acceptance
·
conformity
·
uniqueness
·
passion
·
freedom
·
life
vs. living
·
death
·
abandonment
·
urbanity
