To Explain Why I Am Going Mad

 

Brief 20 - Due by 21 Feb at 10:00am UK time

Let's be super duper strict.  Below are the rules for your play: 1. The play should have either 6 characters or 15 characters. Not all of them need to speak, in fact, one of them never speaks, out of religious reasons. Out of the two character that speak the most - one only speaks in words that are 3 or 4 syllables long and the other never speaks any word with the letter ’t’. Why? No! T! 2. Let's be nice and even - two acts, 4 scenes in each act. The number of speaking lines in each scene must add up to a different multiple of 8. 3. Play must be set in two locations, concurrently, with alternating scenes, although they don't have to happen at the same time. 4. At least two characters should appear in both locations, but the stories should be unrelated. 5. You can have no more and no fewer than 5 pauses - one of them should last 5 minutes (not just 5 minutes of inaction, but 5 minutes of a pause... I mean... golly!) 6. An umbrella opens without anybody touching it in one location and a baby cries in another location - are the two events connected? 7. Two of the characters used to have an affair, but they broke up because of a lie. Two other characters get jiggy at some point in Act 2, Scene 2. 8. Every line of dialogue must have one of the following: either 4 words, 17 words, 22 words, 34 words, 69 (hehe) words or 101 words (you can punctuate as you like). 9. There is to be at least one heart-wrenching monologue. You know the sort - one that kids will use as audition pieces to drama schools, even though it's seriously inappropriate for them. 10. One location plays Ludo, as the other plays Cluedo. One eats toffee, as the other drinks coffee, one location finds a bag of pants (British pants - not American pants) and the other finds a nest of ants. One talks about the weather, and the other about kinky leather. All of these happen in different scenes.   If you aren't sure you understand any of the rules - go with what you think they mean.   And again, with this being a weekend task - your only bonus is to be happy with the result.