File puptcrit/puptcrit.0505, message 49


From: Angusson-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 15:13:40 EDT
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Rats, rats, rats...
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org


Mbuga wrote:   There have been many plays, poems and stories
that draw on the ending - speculation as to where, in fact, the children
were taken. Why take any of that away from to-day's children?

Hi Nancy and all:
Out of my league here but why not????

The kids can handle it. It's the parents who don't trust in their abilities, 
their resilience.
Look at Bambi's Mom. Look at the witch falling off the cliff in Snow White. 
Why is this any different? 

OK. 
"The key to the end is in the beginning."  Who said that?  But it's true. You 
plant an idea and it comes round full circle to tie things up. Your audience, 
if awake, murmurs with understanding and recognition and acceptance. 

Mbuga (sorry) hints at  "...speculation as to where, in fact, the children
were taken.  
This Piper fellow is/has to be a MAGICAL critter. The townsfolk buy into this 
power - though they don't have a clue what it is - and engage his services. 
Is there some way that we can get a hint of who this guy is and where he is 
from and plant it early on? Can't the Mayor or someone ask him where he comes 
from?  Can he describe his beautiful land of 'milk and honey' and can't we - I 
think the kids will - know (conclude) that this guy, this Piper, is taking 
these kids to that same wonderful place? That no harm will befall them?

The villagers renege on their contract and pay by losing the kids. The same 
Piper's tune that beguiles the rats also enthralls the kids who follow and 
forget.
(Much like Mole and Rat (?) in 'Wind in the Willows.' On  hearing the Piper's 
tune, forget all they have been through. A beautiful passage. They have seen 
Pan, the God of the Woodland, and between his cloven hooves the once lost baby 
otter, sleeping, protected. All they can recall as their boat moves slowly 
back into the stream is this beautiful music....

Let the audience speculate on the possibilities on their own time. Perhaps 
the townsfolk find this guy and pay him what's owed and get the kids back. 
Maybe the kids LIKE where they are at and stay. Many possibilities. Let them 
figure it out. just give 'em a hint.

Fred Thompson





<< ..."And away they go!"   I actually hadn't planned on

full-view-into-the-mountain scene...but can't you just hear it?  Just like

those anti-Punch and Judy parents. I guess I am a bit gunshy, after getting

reamed by my awesomely funny "The Goblin Child." Kidnapping, you know.

Nancy----- >>



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