Good Life Pharmercom

All right, the piece I'm working on is quite a bit different now than when I was originally thinking about it. I still have some of the same characters- the CEO, the journalist, etc.. but now it's not even really a play.

The way I'm thinking about it is more of an "event". We advertise it as a product launch, and a merger of two companies- The Good Life Corporation and Pharmercom. They have several new products that they are premiering for the audience.

Several weeks before, we'll launch the Facebook page and Twitter about the "event". I have this dream of starting a kickstarter for some ridiculous amount- like 10 billion dollars. It's not for the play, but for the corporation, just asking for free money.

When the audience arrives, there will be a pre-show kind of thing at the beginning. People will be able to take their picture in front of the logo, and will be encouraged to tweet and post on Facebook. Hopefully we'll have food and snacks. I think it would be nice to have some journalists around asking audience members how excited they are about the new product launch, and if they have any guesses about what the CEO will say at the webinar. Today I watched one of Steve Jobs's conferences for inspiration.

So when it actually starts, the CEO will tell them about the merger and one of the new projects. I'm hoping to be able to get a projector on loan from my boyfriend, so we can do video with graphics and possibly a live feed. We can have graphs and images and possibly interview people "on the street".

There are several products I'm thinking about. One is a technology called "mindlink" which is inserted into people's brains. It's like a phone- it can connect to the internet, send messages, display video, but it's controlled inside the brain through prompts from head movement. Now, I realize the idea of mind control is not a new idea. There are a number of examples in Science Fiction where this happens, but I'm okay with that. It's part of a genre- or that's what I'm telling myself.

Another product is a drug that you take that protects you from the sun, because of course this is the future, and the atmosphere has been completely worn down. I also think there should be a drug that helps with breathing, because the toxic fumes in the air make it very difficult.

So the webinar is happening, and we see commercials and interviews and other stuff like that. Of course, things go terribly wrong. The CEO get hacked - hijacked really, by a hacktivist who takes control of his body. The CEO gets replaced by another CEO, and the webinar continues until the second CEO gets hacked as well.

Eventually, we see elements of a police state emerge, and the audience watches the manhunt for the hacktivist on TV. It ends with the audience being told they cannot leave because of the lockdown.

That's it. For now, at least.