Plan B: Do you even have a Plan A? Are you a Plan A with a Plan B type of person? Do you spontaneously improvise your Plan B when Plan A doesn't pan out? My Plan B is a philosophy, "If it doesn't work out, it wasn't meant to be." (B?)
Umbrellas, parachutes, an extra pair of socks, my aunt's warning: "Make sure you wear nice underwear at all times, just in case you are in an accident."
Plan B - out of your control. The plight of the Syrian refugees. Of all people living a normal life and a government makes that normal life impossible, the only choice to flee.
Plan B- out of your control. Being young, male and black in America.
Plan B- The environment, "We have no Plan B." Is it too late?
Plan B - The Italian Prime Minister re: the refugee situation, "We have a Plan B."
Plan B - The birth control pill. Is it aptly named?
The scouts motto, "Be Prepared"
A story from this summer (Ebony, Taylor and Sophiyaa explored this with me for a performance at Skwirlhaus in Atlanta) Iraqi cellist, in response to the bombings. He shows up at a bombing site and plays his cello. As a way to hold onto "Beauty, civility and compassion." This to me feels like a Plan B response.
Image from Maddy, As hundreds of plastic bottles are released from the overhead, one person who has "been prepared" with an umbrella all the time, opens it.
Image: a costume that is made of hundreds of plastic bottles, with a long train of plastic bottles. A person wears this costume around campus. Anonymous. For the months preceding the show, and somewhere in the performance they appear, enter the space. Something happens.
I would like the arc of the show to be from sweet, warm, and funny with our own "Plan B" stories, then go into some harder "Plan B" stories, and then...?
For those who want to come think about Plan B with me - this Friday. 5PM. My house. Pizza and Plan B.
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