After waffling a bit between a roncom and a scifi political parody, I've firmly decided on the former for the Project. It's a large, complicated storyline, much like a classic Feydeau farce, where everyone winds up at a hotel for prurient purposes and, of course, no one gets to consummate anything. Then, in the third act, it's one time bomb after another as secrets are revealed and complications are thrown around like so much rice at a Presbyterian wedding.
So now the issue I see is, do I do it as a period, turn-of-the-century piece in the true Feydeau tradition, or do I modernize it? Modernizing it might actually help things along, but, since I'm doing a gay romantic comedy (gay in the homosexual sense, by the way), I wonder if it might be more fun to play with things somewhat anachronistically, skirting modern references that would mirror the near desperate action.
But the true joy of it is that it's nine characters and two locations. That's it. A producer's dream. This might actually be the first truly commercial thing I've ever written! :)
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