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Hamalot: To Do
Broad-overview of initial script / production outline development:

1. Outline the play.
   Define all discrete acts / transactions / plot points.
2. Plan an overall style and interpretation.
   Perhaps make Hamlet an innocent bumbler, ex. Candide.
   Define characters, creating contrasts and comedic opportunities.
3. Creatively find a way to drop a third of the play.
   Especially keep only the most commonly known scenes.
4. Consolidate or eliminate some characters to reduce cast.
   Possibly do play-within-a-play section with puppets.
   Possibly do away with entire external war sub-plot.
5. Inventory the likely available skills.
   Have some headliner quality level acts, such as trapeze or silks.
   Juggling, fire, jump-rope, wheel, globe, hoop, wire, gymnastics, unicycle, swordplay, adagio, ...
   Pad with a few comedy/clown acts.
6. Map the skills across the reduced outline.
7. Write basic acts utilizing each skill.
8. Plan for contingencies, fallouts, re-orders, substitutions.
9. Identify one or two pieces performable as stand-alone short acts.

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2006.01.01