Anyway, I have a new play idea. And it goes a little something like this:
Different aspects of girl's personality (Common Sense, Kindness, Persuasiveness, Sadness, etc.) must control the girl's actions and her Anger (locked in a cage) because if it got out she would have the power to murder someone.
When girl gets in a fight with her mom, Common Sense gets knocked in the head and Anger gets out. Anger makes girl kill her mother.
And that's all I have of the description so far. I assume in the end they lock Anger back up, but I don't know what happens to Girl because I don't know what happens when a teenager kills her mother. I suppose she goes to court and pleads insanity or something.
This is everything else that I have so far:
Personality Traits:
Common Sense
Kindness
Persuasiveness
Artsiness
Sadness
Anger
Love
Masculinity
Leadership
Logic (different from common sense... I guess)
Setting:
A Girl's Mind
And now, for your viewing pleasure, I will make the rest of it up. Here we go with
Scene One:
[Lights up on the inside of a Girl's mind. There is a round table at which the Personalities (Common Sense, Kindness, Persuasiveness, Sadness, Artsiness, Love, Masculinity, Leadership, and Logic) sit. They are all girls except for Masculinity. Masculinity is a boy, for reals. In a cage in a corner is Anger. Common Sense addresses the audience]
Common Sense:
We are the Personalities of our Girl's mind. I am Common Sense and I am the leader. Leadership didn't like that very much [Leadership gives a snort] but Logic got Persuasiveness to convince us all that it makes the most sense. [Logic nods knowingly and Persuasiveness gives a grin and a thumbs up] Also with us are Sadness, [Sadness wipes her eyes and gives a tiny wave] Kindness, [Kindness pats Sadness on the shoulder and smiles at the audience] Artsiness, [Artsiness stands up, does a twirl, and sits back down] Love, [Love looks out lovingly at the crowd] and Masculinity. [Masculinity makes muscle arms. Anger rattles her cage. Common Sense sighs.] And over there, we have Anger, locked in a cage.
Masculinity:
I put her there myself.
Logic:
We can't let her out.
Sadness:
It's just not fair.
Kindness:
But it's for her own good.
But it's for her own good.
Artsiness:
For all our own good.
Persuasiveness:
Because if she got out-
Common Sense:
We would all be in danger.
[I don't feel like writing the rest right now. Maybe later.]