parade epiphany

So I had an epiphany of sorts this weekend. It's totally an idea epiphany, not anything that I've thought about practically for this production, so please let's talk about the feasibility of it here.

So. Here goes.

It occurred to me that the parade should be a devolution of the previouly seen characters. It should be a point where the characters devolve into random committers of violent acts = Americans.

So.

I could correlate all of the previous characters with the parade characters. For instance: the boyfriend/girlfriend become bride and groom; the attractive woman with a cell phone becomes attractive yuppie with a cell phone and dispicable politics; set designer becomes the obese person; costume designer becomes the bum... etc... and so on so that every character in the parade is recognizable as a previous character and Bea is watching the world get progressively more violent.

I think this could be the layer that ties the themes together and makes it more of a play than a dream.

Thoughts on this? On how to approach this?

Also, I have a new draft which I've sent to Ottillee. It doesn't include these changes but it does include some significant other ones... the biggest being that the Director at the end is actually Bea who after the punch becomes the director. It'd be awesome if we could talk about those changes here as well. I'm really curious as to what you will all think about those.

Please feel free to email me (jcraft14@aol.com) about script thoughts as well.

janis