about the show?

hullo.


I am just trying to sort of collate some ideas and brainstorm and try and figure out if a show exists and what form it might take and if its worth putting it on a stage.

this is what i have so far -

I want to make something really earnest and beautiful - i have a bunch of images in my head that i want to give life to and vibes etc but not entirely sure of the form yet.

I want to create something thats like operatic or balletic in its grandeur and simplicity of idea - characters are in all or nothing situations, its love, romance, saving the world, life, death - sort of tragic and romantic and high stakes.

I am not sure of the way the show is presented - is it dance, is it straight narrative theatre, is it a mix, is there no dialogue but instead a voice from a computer narrating?

I want it to be blue and purple and silver and white and clear and celestial.

I also want there to be pink and green and yellow at moments but in contrast.

I want there to be a multiple number of images/stages but i want them to be SIMPLE.

I want there to be a skeleton in a clear plastic coffin on a morgue/hospital table (you know the kind of stainless steel deal with wheels) with helium balloons of silver letters spelling VANITAS above it. I guess this is maybe a tomb? the top or table would be covered in gypsophila .

I want there to be sort of tarot imagery, particularly cups and swords suits.

Cups are about opportunity and fullness/emptiness etc. Swords are sort of spiritual i guess but also a lot about sort of loneliness and power and defense.

I want there to be a large painted backdrop of the night sky/stars that sort of also is on the stage and over forms etc.

I want there to be a white rowboat on stage through a dry ice fog. I want dry ice bubbles to fall from the ceiling. I want bubbles in general.

The show is very upper chakra-y i guess. All sort of spirit and celestial and stuff. Lapis Lazuli and Amethysts and Celestite and Angelite.





As far as story goes. I have come up with one sort of beginning of an idea and not sure where its going.



It goes like this sort of I'll write out what i know in some way.  bear with x x x . some things are sort of background to the action/plot etc so don't imagine it in any real sort of 'show' sense as lain out, just jamming to make sense.





SO.



There is a king who is basically like idealistic and wonderful maybe. There is a statue made of him and put on a tall building.


A bird (RUBY) named Ruhia, Wirihinia or WIkitoria (lucy, virginia, victoria) falls in love with the statue.

The statue kind of represents the king, immovable institution, power of ideas, I don't really know yet - but the thing is that he can only see one way and can not move.

Ruhia (etc) is his friend and tells him what is happening behind and around him. The bird is like opposite of a statue, freeform, can go anywhere, movable, changeable.



One day the people overthrow the king and tear the statue down, the heartbroken lil bird rescues a stone from his eye ( A PRECIOUS GEM ) and flies off, distraught.



She flies away and so high without thinking that she flies into space over the celestial sea.

The idea is to kind of think of space as a giant ocean i think. I don't really know.


Anyway, she flies all the way to the other side of the moon where she becomes exhausted and drops into the ocean of stars and dies. She washes ashore on a star.


Then i guess to be interesting I want to tell the next part of the story in a different way. This nex point may be where the show actually starts. These are my notes from a few days ago so some overlap with the above.

Lil pierrot lives on an island. He is a cute little space Pierrot who is the LITTLE CHILD OF MIRACLE who the show may be named for. 

The Moon (VIRGINIA) is his mother and the sun is his father. 

Or so he thinks until The Moon reveals to him, 

"I am your mother, in as much as I am the mother of the stars, and of the sea. I am your mother because i have cared for you and watched you sleep and your chakras open. Just like the sun is your father, as he is the father of the mountains and the trees, he has kept you warm, and watched you grow. 

THIS IS A SORT OF IDEAL WORLD WHERE PEOPLE HAVE A SPIRITUAL CONNECTION TO EVERYTHING

But you have another mother also, and another father also. From a land across the sea. 

How do you know this, and why have you not told me?

They are dead. They have been dead your whole life. 

Your mother was a bird, who fell in love with a statue, on a place called earth. 

Your father was a statue of a great man - a king. and being a likeness of the man he took on something of the mans personality. Your mother was bird who loved him. 

WHY WHY DID THE BIRD LOVE HIM. 

THERE IS A SYMBOLIC THING HERE - STATUE IS MEANT TO BE THERE FOREVER< IS A MONUMENT< WAS OF A KING<KIND OF ABOUT IDEAS AND UTOPIA AND A GOOD WAY OF LIFE? BIRD IS HOPE<TRANSCENDENCE<SPIRIT ETC THEY LOVED LOVED LOVED EACH OTHER> 

One day, the people of the town turned against the king, and imprisoned him. They sought to destroy his ideas, his ideals, and tore down his likeness - the statue. 

Your mother, the bird, distraught, salvaged the stones that where his eye and fled. In her distress, she flew out to sea, hoping to find another land, another town, far away from the evil of her homeland. She grew tired, and weak, and fell into the ocean. You were born there, in the middle of the night, with saturn at its peak, as she died, the stars and I were moved and tried to find the love in her heart to keep her from failing. It was melded with the stone she carried from the statue, her love, and from this magic you were born, a crystalline egg washed onto our shores. We waited, and sure enough the crystal grew and you hatched from within. (LEDA AND THE SWAN REFERENCE IN A WEIRD WAY?)

Where is earth. I want to go. 

Earth is behind me. When i turn my back to you, i am facing earth. She flew across an ocean of stars. You can get there. I think you should. I have hidden it from you for all this time, and i have hidden you from it. 

I WANT TO BE A PRINCE OF PEOPLES HEARTS.  (cheeky Diana reference tho)

And from here I want it to be a sort of reverse Narnia/Alice in Wonderland/Peter Pan situation maybe. 

Like, the little Pierrot wants to go to earth to reinstate the statue or something i dunno. But there's a great scene of him rowing over the ocean of stars to get there. 

Then a scene of him visiting the tomb of the dead king. VANITAS is a lil Memento Mori art thing. 

I guess the show is always gunna be about death and perspective and beautiful flowers or something. 

I think what its meant to kind of do here is to put a naive, beautiful innocent into the world so he can ask questions about what we do and why we do it in a really simple way. Put simple emotions into complex situations? I def don't want to preach EVERYONE SHOULD JUST LIVE LAUGH LOVE or anything but would like to just be like wassup chill okay. 

That's all I think I have right now. I'm not even entirely convinced this is an idea/avenue worth pursuing - it's starting to get a bit too non abstract and weird and not sure if that is the kind of thing we would actually make. It's almost like a childrens story for adults. 

Outta steam now.