Hello, attached is the first 20% (I think) of the play I'm attempting. Jon has seen the opening scenes and was helpful in suggesting some clunky language--haven't yet found a replacement to the out-dated reference to the video game 'DOOM'. I think this play will not include any children, as they are implied in the mix and replaced by actors in the simulation. I'm not looking forward to scripting the simulation--it may be 'background noise'--and in fact I think the plot will begin to write itself by then. It's convenient to have a skeleton, but I'm positive certain characters will develop independent of that plan. And readers' response (i.e., yours) will greatly guide where this play might go.
As ever, and as film credits invariably include at the end, there is no biographical connections intended, and I'm not too concerned with verisimilitude. It was interesting to hear of the film debut of Vaclav Havel over the weekend, where he scripted an aging president of a fictional country who is unceremonially ousted from his post, then his villa, by an unscrupulous successor. Havel hasn't been the president of Czech Republic for some four or five years, but one must wonder if he has some hidden hurt. Hopefully there is nothing so connective to my own life in Codex Orange...
thanks, symposians!
Dan
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