FLIGHT OF THE DOVE

Work in Progress but enough written to read the script for consideration. 

Full-Length Stage Play
2 Characters
1 Man. 1 Woman
Simple Set
75 pages (thus far)

Who are we alone? Who are we together? What does it mean to be an evolved human being? Is finding authentic meaning, actually possible and what does it mean in the end?

Two highly intelligent, well-educated, successful people, try to escape a marriage they believe they no longer can exist within, but cannot seem to escape from.

Their trappings are based in their memories which have defined their identities, and deepened their lives into profoundly complex contradictions. Fear of change is a more complex mechanism than most realize – and what does it mean to change within the existential reality we live within.

Their past is represented onstage by a large pile of baggage, set against a barren stage. Their present is the stage, a battleground of the mind, and heart, and the unknowable future is out there somewhere in the abyss.

The pursuit of breaking free from who you are, or have become, as well as the order you have evolved into for survival, becomes the psychological boxing ring in which the match, evolves within. Walls up, claws out, hearts closed – struggle to break into an openness of self and one another, trying to understand a fuller picture of the depth of connection and identity these two characters are evolving into – the anxiety against the freedom towards an existential realization of a personally meaningful, authentic life.

They live in an emotional and psychological game of relationship-roulette, throughout their attempts to escape from and reunite, we witness raw explorations of themselves, from crashing to highly comic and neurotic interactions, their dramatic and tragic pasts all clashing in this moment in time. They struggle with messy love, difficult love, not vain or ego based love, questioning if love as we believe it to be, actually exists.

Self and The Other define both relationships which are ever-changing through conflict, acceptance, and evolution, despite the social confines that require survival; an excuse for remaining together. and that pulls them back into their comfort zones. Something far deeper exists within their evolving realizations, that place that is often mysterious. Their discoveries break open shallow concepts of contemporary relating,  defined by labels and clichés that have been accepted and that have entrapped them. 

Moving forward brings them to the cliff of change – that place where you can only confront yourself within the abyss, alone, in nature, within the overwhelming magnitude of existence itself, facing you like a giant mirror. 

Their inevitable mistakes have brought them here, to rediscover, in a new way, themselves and one another. They are forced to embrace themselves, alone, within their relationship, within existence. to break free of past definitions imposed on them by others, culture, and their own misunderstandings of their identities as fully human miracles of the universe. 

Can they fly together, as individuals, and soar through new landscapes of vast potential humanity, or do they need to lose one another to find themselves?

Ultimately, the Dove in Flight, is a fragile, poetic image, that possesses a purity of existence against the backdrop of an azure sky – life – living – above the hard ever-present and dangerous ground of brutal nature below; to soar, to discover, and to manifest through choice, our authentic realizations of personal meanings, until the Dove… inevitably falls.