I have looked into the Tom Stoppard screenplay Every good boy deserves favour. This 70-minute one act play is a truly unique collaboration between playwright Tom Stoppard and composer Andre Previn. It is a play for Actors and Symphony Orchestra that calls for musicians on stage, interacting with the actors and providing live music that at times slips into the background, at other times takes center stage, and communicates insights into the characters thoughts, personalities, and states of mind.
The story is fairly simple. It is set in the Soviet Union in an era when political dissidents were deemed insane and confined to asylums with the truly crazy people. Two people with identical names share a cell - one is really crazy (he plays triangle in an imaginary orchestra), the other has been institutionalized because he claims the government is throwing dissidents into insane asylums
I have looked into this unique theatrical piece as it has numerous links with the story that I am have written for my film. the use of the orchestra that comes in and out of reality, with one character thinking hes in the orchestra, brings a depth of insanity to the piece, which is what I am trying to achieve by using the voices in James Schwarz' head, and giving them sum reality with displacement mapping, which can be seen in my animatic.
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