The Promised One
This is the discussion spot for the Promised One.
posted by Dustin at 1:14 p.m.
Thursday, November 17, 2005
This blog is a record of the production of "The Time Project", from initial brainstorming, to writing, and finally to the production in Mid-March 2006, under the name "Heterotopia". The aim of the project is to produce a collaboratively-written theatrical piece with the themes of education, social progress, and Time.
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- has potential: the little kid that people depend on.
- he is daydreaming
- precocious teenager a la Peter Pan
- bored in a classroom or dysfunctional family.
- What is the relation to Tyrant? It is cyclical?
- a teenager with "so much potential"
- Cocky? They would have an A+ in Arts.
- Luck, very confident, never has a role model.
TPO
thinks about mortality.
Mother died wishing he would turn out to be something great. She wrote a note?
He wastes time and forgets in order to not have to face up to that pressure of someone who has died who has left you on the earth to do something. Anything. But something.
Maybe mother has not died, but is more of an absentee mother, off somewhere...so he is raised by aunt. More angst and the possibilty of seeing her again. Should he give her a piece of his mind or embrace her without asking any questions?
Ok just read the other spots and saw that there is a pattern of lost/deceased parents. hmmm interesting that I didnt know that before I chose it for TPO!
So...I read Caroline's psychodrama and liked the distance the father creates between himself and his son. I don't know if I should pick something that direct for TPO or somehting that creates a similar isolation without the overtness. I mean, "rich kids" with parents who are never home but shower them with gifts can create the same monsters/humans.
ie. think of the children whose parents start dropping hints about their alma maters/fave universities before they leave the training pants. Or professionals, business-owners, freedom-fighters, immigrant parents who dream of better lives for their children....etc.
Mix that with a child who displays incredible brightness early in school and those expectations can grow to be crushing for said child.
--I saw Jesus Christ Superstar last night(Merry Christmas!!) and JC keeps saying "Your words, not mine" when people ask him if he is the king of the Jews or God. That happens with any people who achieve some level of success...they live in expecttation...but with Jesus, things get way out of hand. Other people, outside sources, they hold the power in the end. What if TPO feels things are predetermined too?
From Reading "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk. I think TPO would eat this book up. The narrator keeps talking about how we need our devils/villans/wars/conflicts...our souls are being refined with all this pain.
The Promised One is willing to be the villain. To get in trouble. Be blamed.
"Your words, not mine"
He just refuses to wipe the smile off his face as you spit and fume and tell him how he's bound for jail or worse.
Hey, we all need someone to blame.
A little too fond of his own ideas, he is relunctant to get it down on paper.
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