Sunday, October 14, 2007
a thought from Sam
See, if you think of reality like virtual reality, it all makes so much sense. We all make up the world -- we all imagine it and then we build it and then we share it and we keep it all together by believing in it. And then when we don't want to believe in it anymore -- when we decide we're dissatisfied with what we've made -- we start blaming each other and either destroying the world or trying to build another one. But the thing is, neither works until enough people jump on board and say it exists or it doesn't. Until then, we're just a bunch of lonely people complaining and dreaming without aim.
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I love this. Because without this sort of justification, his obsession with cyberspace really is a bit weird. But now, it seems more like a moment of revelation, like Rainboy's "glass of water" moment.
cool. i think that's it exactly.
right now what's at the center of this play for me is the contrast between Sam and Justin. they're both trying to find themselves (and the purpose of existence) but they do it in opposite ways. justin is trying to strip down to the essence of life while sam keeps going deeper and deeper into the layers of it. sam is trying to find himself by losing himself and seeing what's left while justin is trying to lose everything else around him. and then there's Reul, whose choices are limited because she's stuck in the hospital, but whose understanding of reality is more expansive than anyone's because she's seen the other side (she died in surgery and came back).
i think this play is going to ask: What is real?
one of the ways it will do this i think is to explore how we all play roles and change roles by showing how the characters contradict themselves by what they say to different people in various circumstances.
for instance, i'm picturing a scene where Sam is on the phone with Noelle while in 2nd Life with Reul, while in the apartment with Anthony, and lost in memories with Elliot... I think what he says to each person would be very different, as they each represent a separate facet of him (past, present, fantasy, memory...).
That scene with Sam could be a whole play.
That's going to be amazing, and perhaps the hardest scene I could ever imagine writing!
Excited.
well, hopefully we can set up the scene in skype soon and see how it works!
Yes! But let's wait just a couple more days until my modem arrives in the mail. :-D
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