31 Plays in 31 Days, #10 - “On Your Terms”

A scene from Justin’s adventure, a weightier moment from later in the story. We don’t have the whole plot worked out, but we know we want it to be a Wodehouse style criss-crossing of capers and misdirected escapades— one of which will be a family’s special statue whose head gets cut off and disappears. Justin wants the matriarch of the family to invest in his firm, so he thinks solving the mystery of what happened to the statue will help win the woman over. He plans on utilizing the help of his longtime valet, Peter Morgan, who has traveled the world with him and been his closest companion.

But we wanted there to be some significance emotionally to this story, so we wanted to give it some interpersonal meaning. In this, we’re addressing Justin’s cavalier and cynical attitude to everything, facilitated largely by his privilege as a wealthy single man who answers to no one. He and Morgan care about each other beyond just as master and servant, but Justin doesn’t always consider the impact of his actions on those with less power than him. It gives him a journey, and a speed bump for the two of them to get over in their relationship.


Photo by John Benfield

( Day #10 - On Your Terms )