Started with playing around with the rats. In re-researching the show I remembered rats do cool things. Things like if they don't gnaw away on things, there front two teeth curl back under their heads, stabbing themselves in the brain. Plus, live rats have been known to come up through the toilet bowls. Awesome.
So rats have been on the discussion table. Brief science lesson: the rats carry the fleas which carry the yersina pestis (plague). When rats die, fleas jump ship aiming for your ankles. Fleas bite you, you get the plague. The rats played no role in the last production, so this time around we thought they deserved there place in history. Needless to say, we aren't exactly historically accurate. Look out for a penny arcade sequence in The Greater Plague that features grade six rats hosting a school debate on the value of infecting humans.
Biggest discovery of the day was the preface. A way to open the show that communicates the rules these characters are playing by. An open explanation of who is the protagonist and their thoughts on that subject. The opposite of artfully revealing objective or subtext. Straight out, unashamed and un-theatrical to the point of it being very watchable. Intellectually, very interesting. I wonder if it will transfer to stage.
Structre changing daily. So far to go, but feeling better now at midnight than I did a few hours ago.
x nic
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