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Good song to go with this play i'm writing,,,? plz help
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| krashi |
This is a work in progress for a highschool play. Please respect my work and don't flame me plz. I am looking for suggestions for songs I could possibly use for a theme to my play.
By: Mathew Krzanowski
Synopsis:
Everything is relative. Without any evil there could be no good. How is one supposed to know if they are living a happy and fulfilling life if they have never known any other way of living?
Our planet is littered with large cement expanses known as highways where we drive big loud and dirty machines from place to place. These places which we visit are usually huge manmade buildings of cold stone and steel, sometimes reaching as high as the clouds. Functionality is the “style” which governs our society. Little or no room is left for art, culture, or respect for the earth. Our government may be democratically elected, but once in power their main concern is staying on the side of big buisness. Whoever said that money was the root of all evil was right.
When comparing everything about our society and government with so-called “primitive” tribes and cultures, it’s easy to see that they are far from primitive. As western civilization spreads its influence, we slowly lose the few ways of life, which are actually true to the earth. The first nations of North America were not savages, or intellectually inferior to the Europeans which took their land, but rather they chose to look at life on this earth in another way other than profit, gain and power. They chose balance and respect for the earth and the only reason their ways of living were changed is because they were forced to by the technologicaly superior europeans.
Whoever said that North America was bought with booze is sorely mistaken. I don’t think that having a gun pointed at you and someone telling you that you can either take the booze, give them your land and live, or you can get shot and lose your land is buying north America on booze. It’s holding a people who were misunderstood at the time hostage and demanding all their possessions. It is stealing.
This play will present a comparison between western civilization and ancient culture. A misunderstood civilization will be discovered by a scientist who does not realize what he is doing is wrong. It is through the teachings of the tribe that the scientist finally realizes how corrupt the world really is. The scientist can either release his findings to the public and gain social status within the scientific community, or he can sacrifice his carreer and preserve a peoples way of life.
Plot:
Scientist lives alone and has nothing left but the status within the scientific community which his father gained. The scientist must now prove his worth to his father and decides to continue his father’s research. He has decided to venture to the jungle and search for medicinal plants to help discover a cure for cancer.
While in the jungle, scientist discovers an ancient tribe and slowly starts to observe them from afar keeping his findings a secret. After years of careful research the scientist deciphers the tribes language and decides to approach them.
They are peaceful people who willingly accept the scientist as a guest into their tribe, they praise him for knowing their language and wish to learn more about his “tribe” (western civilization). The scientist explains to them all about technology, computers, cars, space flight, and pollution. The tribe then asks that the man to now listen to their philosophy on life.
After much debate, the scientist finally realizes how destructive and awful western civilization is and that these people are never to be exposed to the public, they are true beings of the earth and outside influence would only corrupt them.
It is after this realization that the scientist discovers these people know the cure to cancer!
The scientist then leaves to head home and grab testing equipment and Lab type stuff. It is here that his father pays a visit to his house and finds his notebook which mentions the cure. The father confronts the scientist and demands to be led to these people. The Scientist realizes that if this were to happen, quite possibly the last true beings of the earth would be corrupted, and possibly killed.
On his way back to the jungle the scientist realizes he is being followed. Nowhere to go, nothing left in the world he once thought was paradise, and no way to get back to the tribe without exposing them, the scientist takes his own life.
Final Play: Untitled
Characters
Dr. Julian Steinberg
Dr. Claudius Steinberg (Julian’s Father)
Tribal leader
Tribal memebers (Small Part)
Unknown Stalker (Small Part)
Setting:
The stage is to be divided into 2 parts, Stage Right and Stage Left. The lighting for stage right is to be dark and shadowy (a dim blue would work well), stage right is to be bright and revealing.
Stage Right will have an office setting, filing cabinets etc.
Downstage right will consist of a desk with a computer on it and a chair. Various papers are to be on the desk.
Upstage right may have a door and filing cabinet (office type stuff)
Stage left and part of center stage will have an outdoors exotic and natural feel. Trees and other vegitation to give a jungle type setting.
Play:
Scene 1:
(The sound of children’s laughter is played while lights are slowly turned up on stage left. Stage left is to be empty of people. The lights and music begin to fade and a thunder crash followed by the sound of rain marks the slow fade of lights up on stage right. Stage left lights should be completely faded when thunder hits. After a few seconds and after the lights have been faded in (dark, blue tint lights) the thunder and rain stop. A man sits at the desk Downstage Right with his head resting on the desk. After the Sound effects stop he awakens from his rest, groggy and seemingly depressed)
Julian: Uh, fell asleep at the desk again. (after looking over the room) what a life, here I am, 30 years old, lonely and stuck in this stupid office. All I ever wanted to do was make you happy dad (as he grabs a picture frame from off the desk), and I couldn’t even do that. There you are Dr. Claudius Steinberg on the front of Popular Science for your cancer research and here I am Dr. Julian Steinberg. The Only things I get my name on the front of are these Goddamn bills! (Throwing the picture frame to the ground and breaking down emotionaly)
(After a short while, julian gets up and declares something)
That’s it, I’m through being a failure.
*Thats all i've got so far, any suggestions as to a theme song I could use?* Maybe even 2 songs, one really upbeat, kinda like solarstone -seven cities, only not that song, and maybe a darker one, like astral projection style maybe,, give me suggestions! |
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| krashi |
| I guess i'll just use solar stone and some astral projection, come on guys =) |
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| SoulSupply |
| a bit of agnelli & nelson never hurt! ;) but seriously, look for they're song "Singing for the Future", its got a nice bongo led rhythem and i think wud fit well with ur theme. |
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| krashi |
Thanx man, i'm gonna get it right now =)
The play is kinda wacked out, it's my first attempt at something half serious. I think it's gonna work alright though. |
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| TranceGeek |
| "dead can dance - the host of seraphim" might be good? :conf: |
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| DJAhmet |
BT - Satellite
BT - Dreaming
Chicane - Saltwater
BT - The revolution
Hybrid - Finished Symphony
Mauro Picotto - Komodo
Yahel - For the people
Yahel - Last man in the Universe
These are just tracks off the top of my head, but what sort of feeling do u want in the scene etc, thats the tracks u should go for. If u let me know what feelings you want, then I can give u better tracks that would fit the scene... ;)
ive done music for my brothers and friends short movies b4 so im sure i could help further.. ;) |
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| krashi |
wow, thanks for all the ideas guys =)
i'm going for very happy and cultural feeling for one song, and I want an almost depressing one for the other song. I want to make people realize the importance of these people throught their harmony with the earth and at the same time I want another song that can show the desperate situation that westernized culture is in.
I know it all sounds crazy, but i'm a little crazy so it's all good =)
thanks for replying guys =) |
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| DJAhmet |
Very happy song could also be
Paul van Dyk - Beautiful Place
Another track which u could use somewhere is
Havvana - Ethnic Prayer
has like a tribal vocal bit in it. its nice track.
If u cant find it, ill rip it for u.
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