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Adam's Ark and The Great Pandemic: A Play
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ISBN13: 9798985210903
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 3 2021
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 3 2021
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.29 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The genesis of this play began decades ago with the fear of nuclear war, and subsequently various kinds of chemical warfare such as that used in the Vietnam war, which continue to affect people to this day. However, it became clear long ago that biological weapons would eventually become the means of mass warfare (and mass destruction).
DNA and other scientific evidence indicate that mankind reached the brink of extinction seventy-five thousand years ago. If mankind again reaches near extinction, it likely would be the result of biological warfare or a natural cataclysmic event, rather than via nuclear or chemical warfare. The pandemics of the Black Death of 1347, the Spanish flu of 1918, and the coronavirus, are not known to be of biological warfare origin. This play was initially written before the current pandemic, and represents the hypothetical result of massive biological warfare. Coronavirus shows the extensive impact one single everyday virus can have on worldwide civilization.
A play that has a multi-racial cast featuring characters of different racial heritages, which might be the natural result of a Great Pandemic, and my visits to Tristan da Cunha, where racial diversity is the result of naturally occurring events, have solidified my desire to write such a play. Adam's Ark combines these two themes.
Four survivors of the Great Pandemic, all seeking a safe haven in a world of desolation and lawlessness, come together in the confines of a barn, a burrow, which provides a place of shelter, safety, sustenance and survival, and a focus of fertility. They are joined by two others, fleeing a dying community. This ethnically diverse group consists of:
A play that has a multi-racial cast featuring characters of different racial heritages, which might be the natural result of a Great Pandemic, and my visits to Tristan da Cunha, where racial diversity is the result of naturally occurring events, have solidified my desire to write such a play. Adam's Ark combines these two themes.
Four survivors of the Great Pandemic, all seeking a safe haven in a world of desolation and lawlessness, come together in the confines of a barn, a burrow, which provides a place of shelter, safety, sustenance and survival, and a focus of fertility. They are joined by two others, fleeing a dying community. This ethnically diverse group consists of:
- A writer, well-educated, yearning for home and security.
- A survivalist, well-educated, resourceful, streetwise, dreamer, visionary, yet practical.
- A vagabond, streetwise, uneducated, resourceful, earthy, yearning for a mate, with a strong desire for nurturing.
- A revolutionary, self-sufficient, idealistic.
- Two young warrior women, sharpshooting champions.
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