Post by hamlet on Jan 29, 2010 19:07:26 GMT -5
Setting: Present Day NYC
Stories affect everyone’s lives. It is why we are so engaged in movies and literature with great narratives. They drive the way that we live our lives. Perhaps you’ve heard the stories where people worked hard and have overcome unimaginable odds. They became successful despite the obstacles. Because you've heard those stories, you feel that you can do anything as long as you set your mind to it and work hard.
Or maybe you’ve heard stories about people who have worked hard and yet the system kept pulling them down. Discrimination, violence or maybe even disease took over their lives and they never recovered from it. Because you’ve heard these stories, maybe you feel that no matter what you do, things will not be in your favor. Maybe it’s too hard to even try.
There are many of these stories in NYC. Each person has a handful of tales woven into their very beings. Some of those stories are unwritten. Some of those stories are prewritten. Some of them need to be…rewritten.
Here, we give you the opportunity to rewrite the stories of old. Stories that have stood the test of time and continue to capture our imaginations. Stories about love. Life. Wealth. Power. Glory. La Bohème. Your imagination is the limit.
Like predestination, old stories affect the outcome of what is new. The names of different characters hearken back to narratives developed years ago. For example, one of our canons is RENT - a musical/film that is the product of an old opera entitled La Boheme.
We encourage you to take canon characters that you want to reinvent (however, although you can take RENT characters, you can not reinvent them as they are already reinvented). Familiarize yourself with their original stories. You don’t have to know every detail about the character to make it your own. As long as you know the general history, you can then take that character and rewrite a modern, present day version. All we ask is that you make the character true to the original in some way.
For instance, if you decide to RP Sherlock Holmes, you are allowed to modernize him in anyway you see fit. But what ever makes him recognizably Sherlock Holmes should still be there. In otherwords, you can’t create a punk rocker lead singer character, with no observation skills whatsoever, and call him Sherlock Holmes.
You even have the option of taking minor characters and developing their modern-day personalities. If you would like to give a name to the narrator in Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe and develop what happened before and after the original story began, by all means do so!
So all that is left is: What character to be and what character not to be, that is the question!
