31 Plays in 31 Days, #10 - “A Plan for Everything”

A mid-story Hawking 7 scene of Mary and Arthur. By this point, Mary has taken on a case for a local man she meets in #2 - “Lost Children”, on top of everything else in an already busy life. I want to establish here that both she and Arthur have a lot going on— her work and his, caring for their baby, and their obligations to their friends and their community. But at this point, I’m trying to create the impression that they are handling it because they’re just so capable and determined. But I’m hoping to build to the idea that even the most capable and determined people in the world can’t do everything all the time, and that’s just a truth a person has to come to grips with no matter how valiant their intentions are.

I’m also toying with establishing a parallelism between the cases being worked in both New York and London, across Mary, Arthur, and Mrs. Hawking. Without drawing too much attention to it, I kind of want them all working on variations of a similar case (a girl has disappeared). I thought it might serve to tie them together and make points about how they may be going down different paths, but their history ties together. History, after all, is a rope. ;-)


Photo by Jacob LaRocca

( Day #10 - A Plan for Everything )