Take a couple Twilight Zone episodes (the classics would get the most traction, but I’d prefer to adapt my favorites) and turn them into a single stage play—an anthological play. (I can portray Rod Serling, eh?)
Or, adapt a Twilight Zone episode into a longer story—one whose world could’ve been more deeply explored—for the stage. Would need permission from CBS and Carol Serling.
When I play Pokemon, I finish the entire game up until the Elite Four—then, sensing the end of my Hero's Journey, I restart the game, because I don't want the journey to end. If I beat the Elite Four, I am no longer a rising underdog, and the challenge is gone; I don't want victory, I want a challenge. So I restart the game. I've played over fifty times through, up until the Elite Four, but I've never committed to beating them. — It's similar to the protagonist in Memento, leaving further clues so that his vengeful journey continues because the hunt is better than the triumph. — Suppose I wrote a play where my protagonist, at the climax of his Hero's Journey, could finally attain satisfaction with one proverbial swing of the sword… but he instead lets the villain escape, and tells the incoming reinforcements that the trail went cold and he found nothing: they'll just have to look harder, fan out, search the other seedy burrows... Venture further, for longer... The hunt is renewed, albeit selfishly. (Consider this protagonist a Humphrey Bogart-type character, or Harrison Ford-esque.)
Within a fallout shelter, post-nuclear holocaust. Interpersonal drama, woe, power struggles…
Hell, this could be the aforementioned “elongated Twilight Zone episode” play if I spun-out the script for Rod Serling’s “The Shelter”, 1961, season 3 episode 3.
Comedic play, wherein one character keeps trying to start singing about his feelings, but the others always stop him, citing “This isn't a fucking musical, Keith! Knock it off!”
Play about three family members, all allergic to cats, arriving to an apartment to help a gay man move-out of Milwaukee. (The family members, in their relation to the relocator, are his dad, brother, and brother-in-law.) They arrive expecting to load and leave, but he'd barely begun packing. Single setting play—one room, four characters; chronological story unfolds in a single day; sharp, derisive dialogue about the nature of packing, recollecting on memories inspired by things they’re boxing-up, learning new things and secrets about each other, general disgruntlement at the situation, as well as life, love, hopes, dreams, etcetera—and the whole time the 3 family members are sneezing and itchy from the abundant cat dander.
Original document created 12/28/2014.