Tuesday, April 21, 2020
Wunderkammer The Kid (A Possible Backstory)
When I read the story at first and realized that the Kid was sold by someone and given to the Keeper, I believed that the Kid's backstory was him being given up for adoption by his birth parents (making up a case scenario so that the beginning of the play would make sense) and was probably taken by force from an adoption clinic by children traffickers, who would hold up clinic workers at gunpoint. His parents would be unable to take care of the Kid, probably because they were in financial debt or possible convicts of a serious crime, and wouldn't have enough time to care for a child. The kid then was probably sold for profit to the Keeper as the children traffickers bribe him out of money, listing the benefits of the kid and what he can do, but the Keeper wouldn't know that he got scammed. The Keeper would then stuff the child into a bag, then tie him up and shove him into the front of his vehicle as the child panics, on his way back to the Keeper's desired destination. Then that is where the play would begin.
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I love this scenario and it wasn't too far off from mine. I thought maybe his parents sold him being that they were in debt to someone and sold the kid to help work off their debt. After the kid was no longer useful to the person who originally "owned" the kid, he was then later sold to the Keeper.
ReplyDeleteThis scenario seemed interesting to me, I think that at the beginning of this play the writer would have given a little more information about the Kid and how it got into the hands of the keeper. As you say it could be that the Kid was sold by his parents because they had many debts. the buyer no longer wanted to keep it or take care of it, so it fell into the hands of the Keeper and that's where the story begins.
ReplyDeleteThese are all really good scenarios. Do you think that this world is simply our world (granted a world where mermaids and magic exists)? Or is it some other world (post-apocalyptic, fairytale, alternate, etc.)?
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