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THE GREAT WORKS PROJECT

a puppet play in many parts

Season Two, Episode One

a prologue

By Thomas Typewriter

(c) 2020

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FADE IN TO BLACK

From the bottom of the screen scrolls up the following text: 02-01. It moves upwards, pausing a moment in the center of the frame, then continues upward, exiting the frame at the top edge

FADE OUT

FADE IN

INT. UNROOM NOT.SEVEN

THE CAMERA SITS IN THE POV OF SOMEONE SITTING OFF CENTER LOOKING TOWARDS THE CENTER OF THE ROOM.

In the center of the unroom sits a large wooden disc. Arranged in rows radiating outward from the wooden disc, much like chairs in an auditorium, are a series of carpet squares. A rainbow of greys, every intensity, every hue, dances around us. At the ends of each row, tall spindly metal lamps illuminate the room. Their dark serpentine cords trail off into the dim edges of the unroom.

A sound of METAL BELLS AND CELESTE MELODIES rings out followed by unseen lamps flicking on casting light across the TYPEWRITER ABSTRACT PUPPET STAGE. Now visible on the wooden disc, it draws our attention.

PAN IN ON THE MID-STAGE AREA

TRANSITION FROM THE UNROOM TO THE MID-STAGE OF THE TYPEWRITER ABSTRACT PUPPET STAGE

MID-STAGE: CURTAINS CLOSED

The Mid-stage curtains part. There are no decorations on the Mid-stage today.

CONTINUE TO PAN IN TO AND THROUGH THE MID-STAGE

TRANSITION FROM MID-STAGE TO BACK-STAGE

The Curtain of Clouds, visible against the back of the Mid-stage parts revealing…

THE BACK-STAGE: THE CONCURRENT DISTANCES

CONTINUE TO PAN PAST THE CURTAIN OF CLOUDS UNTIL THE CONCURRENT DISTANCES FILLS THE SCREEN.

The Concurrent Distances manifest this episode as a void. No decoration. No sets. Darkness.

PAUSE AND HOLD THE SHOT OF THE CONCURRENT DISTANCES TO ALLOW THE EMPTINESS OF IT TO SET IN.

From stage-right emerges a DREAM-BUBBLE. Languidly blinking, it drifts from one side of the stage to the other, exiting stage-left. Shortly thereafter another Dream-bubble floats in, drifting from stage-right to stage-left.

The Dream-bubble reemerges from stage-right but moves swiftly this time from stage-right to stage-left. THE MAIDEN leaps on stage chasing after the Dream-Bubble. She pursues it off-stage.

They return shortly, it fleeing and she pursuing. The Dream-Bubble almost escapes, but she leaps and grabs hold of it. She opens her grip to examine it, but the Dream-bubble has turned a sickly yellowish-green color. It is lumpy and uneven. Dented where she grabbed it.

THE MAIDEN
“Yuck.”

She throws it away where it sits on the floor irregularly blinking. The Maiden notices the other Dream-bubbles now floating on-stage from stage-left and stage-right. She sits and watches in fascination.

THE MAIDEN
“Pretty.”

She stands and follows the Dream Bubbles off stage. Moments later the damaged Dream-bubble awkwardly hovers up from the ground. It flies off stage, limping the opposite way the Maiden exited.

PAN OUT

TRANSITION FROM BACK-STAGE TO MID-STAGE

PAN OUT TILL THE MID-STAGE CURTAINS FILL THE FRAME

TRANSITION FROM THE MID-STAGE TO THE UNROOM

INT. UNROOM NOT.SEVEN

CONTINUE PANNING OUT TILL RETURNING TO THE OUTER ONE’S POV FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE

The Mid-stage curtains close. The unseen lamps illuminating the Typewriter Abstract Puppet Stage dim to dark.

FADE OUT