Idea For A Play II

In the Javahouse, a young disgruntled student attending the University of Iowa is not doing his homework right now. Instead, he is working on his blog, thinking up an idea for a new full length play, wondering whether or not he is going to graduate school in the fall. His playwright SIgnificant OTHer has just left to go to spanish class, but the two have just spent the past hour online looking at trivia for AMADEUS on IMDb. This, along with the fact that his SIGOTH brought up the play MARAT/SADE, has caused the disgruntled to think about an old germ a play formula. It reads as follows...

We open on an old sailing vessel, a maze of ropes, a web of fabric sails, a team of ragged expatriated travelers caught in the tropical doldrums. All aboard are doomed for lack of water or food, the audience included. The last survivors, led by a plucky heroine, decide not to die in misery, but instead to pass their remaining time in pantomime. They put on a play to tell their story.

Their tale is a picaresque, and their lives are tangled together in a strange fantasy. Heroes and Villains, lovers and fighters, povery and great riches. Every element of the play tells its own story, and all of those stories contribute to a final message:

If there's one thing we must all understand,
do not take for granted a life on land.

The ultimate theme: make change in your own world. Don't run away from or ignore society's problems. Don't expatriate when you could start a revolution. WAKE UP! DO SOMETHING! Otherwise we're all lost at sea...

...The disgruntled student thinks about titling the play "Life on Land." He also thinks that this is a corny idea for a play. "So what?" He thinks, "I'm from the midwest. Corn is our staple crop!"

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