Donald Trump
is your audience. He will sit and watch the play completely and alone.
Your
performers will be thoroughly screened
And he’s
behind some pretty severe protection security measures.
Basically
don’t just physically attack him if that’s how you were going to angle.
Cool?
Okay.
So.
Unlimited
budget.
Audience of
one.
What do you
write?
My bias.
Facts don’t
change minds.
Truth doesn’t
move people.
Stories that
generate empathy do.
Creating an
imbalance that humans - in this case ONE human - feel the need to return to
balance.
THAT’s an
effective inciting incident that can carry your audience through to the
climactic answer by re-asking the same question -
renewing the
same imbalance -
until the
final release.
*********
As intriguing a challenge
as this is, when I look over the bulk of last November's challenge entries, I
see the election traumatized me into plenty of rambling dialogues on the
subject already. I feel as if 45 has gotten more than enough space in my brain
pan. So I'm going to hold him at arm's
length and keep working on the current play - though like all the challenges,
I'm probably diving into this one again later when I run out of steam on
something else and want to jumpstart a scene or two. And speaking of rambling dialogues, I'm still
trying to get a bead on where Duncan and Jeffrey stand so -
************
DUNCAN
There
are so many things wrong with this, I can't believe you'd encourage him.
JEFFREY
The
heart wants what it wants.
DUNCAN
That
right there is some bullshit.
JEFFREY
You
haven't seen them together.
DUNCAN
I
don't need to. Auggie is straight, and
married, and his wife's pregnant. Jesus,
take a hint.
You
want him to be miserable?
JEFFREY
No,
of course not. Why do you think I gave
him the love potion in the first place?
DUNCAN
Apparently
because you were too chickenshit to use it on the guy you wanted to, a guy who
was at least actually gay to begin with.
JEFFREY
So
that would have been all right?
DUNCAN
No,
but currently you're just playing into every conservative religious person's
stereotypical gay nightmare.
JEFFREY
And
which nightmare is that exactly?
DUNCAN
That
we gay men are constantly prowling around, looking to convert unsuspecting
straight men. Enough guys do what Micah
did, they set the movement back fifty years.
JEFFREY
Not
everything is about gay civil rights.
DUNCAN
We
don't have the luxury of being careless.
JEFFREY
Oh,
so as long as we're good little boys, stick to our own kind, they'll leave us
alone? You know better than that.
DUNCAN
But
why provoke people with a stunt like this?
JEFFREY
We
are actively working to undo this as quickly as possible.
Micah
is not taking advantage of Auggie. I'd be surprised to hear he laid a finger on
him.
DUNCAN
Damage
is done, buddy.
JEFFREY
Look,
I made a mistake, he made a mistake.
DUNCAN
Drugging
somebody is a little more than a mistake.
JEFFREY
So
you're going to turn us into the police.
DUNCAN
Right. Because they'd believe this situation was
actually happening.
(to be continued)
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