AUTHOR'S NOTE + SYNOPSIS
AUTHOR'S NOTE + SYNOPSIS
The Unauthorized Occupation of Patty Hearst
CALL ME TANIA:
ACT ONE
SONG DEMOS
+ SCENE LIST + PLOT POINTS
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A hidden “before-the-play-begins” scene – covertly putting two competing versions of reality in motion
Overture
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Participants, witnesses and the media reenact sound-bites for a historic overview of the strange ordeal
The Question Remains
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At her parents’ home, before her kidnapping, Patty and her parents sing of their ordinary-world problems
Trivial Trivial Things
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Patty sings a universal-teenager song about her uncertain identity in her family and in the world
Caught Up In Between
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An Unexpected Knock
Patty’s live-in fiancé Steve delivers cautionary advice
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Patty’s violent abduction plays out “silently” in slow-motion – scored by a gentle instrumental…
Taken (Part 1)
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…the violent abduction replays in real-time, in pitch darkness with terrifying gun fire and screams
Taken (Part 2)
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Patty’s parents react to the news of their daughter’s kidnapping, colliding in an up-tempo duet
Level-headed Adrenaline
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My Dream of Freedom
Patty and Cinque sing a captor/captive duet of their mutual-yet-contradictory ambitions for liberation
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Stop Start Over (Part 1)
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Patty is forced to record her own audiotape ransom note listing the SLA’s unattainable demands
The Madness of Rainbows
Mr. Hearst explains how “a perfect world” is one of the most horrible things ever demanded
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Indoctrination
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The SLA deconstruct and reprogram Patty’s mind as she struggles to hold her soul inside
The SLA slips Patty LSD, sending her on a vertiginous psychedelic journey with dark passages
Drop Through The Sky
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Ghosts in The Closet
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Patty encounters her dead grandparents who offer cryptic clues for her survival and redemption
Stop Start Over (Part 2)
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The SLA’s unattainable demands are spelled out in a new audiotape ransom message
Unexpectedly thousands of people line up for the free-food ransom – and the situation escalate into a riot
Troubles of This World
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As the riot unfolds in slow-motion, a figure steps forward and sings to Mrs. Hearst of class inequality
The Poor Are Pawns Again
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The world reacts to a new SLA audiotape while an outrageous proof-of-life Polaroid of Patty is staged
Stop Start Over (Part 3)
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All But One Thing
Patty chooses survival, completing her mind-controlled transformation into a militant revolutionary
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Am I Only What I Did Today
Patty robs a bank, wielding a military assault-rifle and crosses the point of no return
