I need a setting for a play. It needs to be mostly original.?

Question

It should be mostly original and avoid places or times where storyline is limited.

Answer 1

In the year ----, the first men land on Mars. They seek out and find NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander and recover the DVD

secured to the outside of the robot with the names of all the subscrbers. Over to you.

People are down a well. It's quite deep and even though it is midday, the glare of the sunlight is cut by thedepth, and sparkling stars can be seen quite clearly in the blue, midday sky. It's a passage way to the stars. Over to you.

Leonardo Da Vinci enters a big box. He writes of it as a house on the edge of a field. He describes how light can be seen on the rear wall  showing the scene outside, only upside down (camera obscura). Over to you.

Two campers are discussing the stars. a supernova is observed. It is a bright light that grows bighter and brighter and then just switches off. Over to you.

An aboriginal lady artist is offered $26,000 to prepare a large mural for the wall of a new campus building at a university. Does she accept? Over to you.

Guess who's coming to dinner at the home of a democratic

freedom supporter? Robert Mugabe.

If the Government of Australia refuses to pass a g*y marriage bill, it will be accused of violating the rights of thousands of citizens. If it does, it will be antagonising the church. Over to you. (Such a law will be passed in Australia by the end of 2008.)

School pupils in the United States are deliberately and progressively being denied the right to learn mathematics.

Gradually, a new scientific elite takes control. What happens to the ignorant mass of uneducated people in the U.S.A.?

(already half the school pupils of the U.S. are illiterate in Maths.)

At the speed of light, time does not exist.  Einstein's E = mc2

formula is avoided by viewing the facts from another dimension. A space ship is able to get to the speed of light,

300,000 km per second, but not faster. What happens on board, considering that there is no time and the crew do not age. They can travel for two thousand million years instantaneously in their new frame of reference. Over to you.

Answer 2

How about in a school for the blind or a nudist colony?  Or, a school for the blind next door to a nudist colony?

Answer 3

MOSTLY original? Good luck with that. Ain't no such animal. Everything is derivative.

"A Long Time Ago, In A Galaxy Far Far Away..." is about the closest thing to Original that you can get, and it has been done to death.

A Fevered Dream format can work, but risks becoming the final season of Dallas.

The Alternate Universe format has possibilities, but you really gotta do your homework in building it, to avoid the Star Trek/Wars pitfalls ( How much do I weigh on other planets? How do chairs look if knees bend the other way? Does everyone gain nourishment from consuming something that once lived? Does one breathe?  Do all Aliens speak English with a posh British accent, like the Ancient Romans did?).

Stick with either confirmable Historical settings, or Contemporary.

Answer 4

What is the story? That will tell you where to set the scenes.

Answer 5

how about tokyo?

Answer 6

do a play about gotse

Answer 7

The Planet of Icky Icky Icky Ba-Dang Zuuuuuu-woooooooooop Booooiiiiiinnnnngggggaaaaaaa!!!!!

That was mostly original...

Answer 8

I'm sorry..."mostly original"? Isn't that in the same category as "a little pregnant"? I mean either something is original, or it's not. Isn't it?

Anyway...SME is right. Tell your story. The setting and time periods are irrelevant, until the story is actually being told. By that time, the pieces fall into place almost by themselves.