PPP Brainstorming

Brainstorming

-          Companionship, not romance

-          Stone motif; stone is cold, supposedly unfeeling

-          Medusa and a blind child?

·          Turning people into stone; I’d like this concept, but is it overdone?

·          The child wouldn’t even have to be blind as long as the woman doesn’t look

-          Bird motif; songbirds or ravens?

-          Melancholy

-          Tenderness; this one is key

-          Loneliness and despair

·          If I want an ending where the main character dies, I’ll have to build up to it properly

-          Stanislavsky or Brecht?

-          No, we'll go with Lepage - his projections and philosophies suit the play I'd like to write better

-          Socio-historic connotations are likely modern or 20th century

·          can I use modern as a socio-historic connotation?

-          A blind child who believes that a statue is talking to him when it is in fact a bird that lives upon it

·          Oh no wait I like this one; the bird doesn’t have to be a bird, necessarily though

·          A blind person who believes a statue is talking when it’s actually another person?

·          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

·         One of the two dies, but who

-          “After joy… sorrow.”

OR

-          “No respectable bird sings with that much feeling”; a story about too much passion

·          A world of stone; concrete; urban

·          People wear bland colors, shades of grey

·          In this world there is a boy who wears color and bears light in his eyes, and he is ostracized for it

§  Perhaps he paints for a living and finds his grey clothes streaked with color, always

§  He is painfully lonely

·          Another boy, a grey bland one, frequently walks past, but more and more, he stops to watch

§  He too, is lonely in the crowd of those so like-minded he might as well be alone

§  Embittered and tired; is breathing instead of living

§  One day, he’s accidentally splashed with color and it makes him begin to think differently

·          Potential exchange

§  “What’s the point of passion when you’ll just die in the end?”

§  “What’s the point of living without passion?

·          Stark lighting to show the whole world; fades

§  isolated spotlights on each boy

·          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

§  perhaps the music itself is a cry for companionship

·          I could use Lepage's projections here

·          Do they need names?

·          Potential quotes

§  "Why have be so passionate if you'll just die away?"

§  "Why bother living without passion?"

·          They have conflicting personalities and ideologies, but they find refuge in each other

·          Do I want one of them to die?

Ideas to Explore

·         companionship

·         isolation

·         refuge

·         acceptance

·         conformity

·         uniqueness

·         passion

·         freedom

·         life vs. living

·         death

·         abandonment

·         urbanity