I'm high rn and just now I had a thought. About stage play adaptations of games I like.
Ramblings under the cut.
First I think about how cool a Fran Bow play would be. Like with all the monsters and creatures as puppets and the humans being played by people. Like so many choices to be made with that. Holy fuck it'd be so cool. Only thing would be figuring out how to smoothly use the pills, bc that's the only real player controlled thing, but that's like figuring out where portals go in portal it's easy to figure out and people made a play based on Portal 2 so.
Also Undertale. It's a story that can't really be properly told outside of a video game rpg context but I'm just a theater kid and just an Undertale fan even if it was like less serious I think it'd still be fun. I imagine it would have a certain amount of audience interaction like oregon trail style, like naming the human and maybe a few pre-planned deaths to establish the reset powers, maybe the puzzles too. Monsters being played by a mix of people in cosplay and puppets, maybe planned out to fit thematically rather than if it looked silly or something. Like MTT's bot form could just be a puppet, Flowey could be like a puppet (Audrey 2 style for the omega flowey battle), maybe the amalgamates could be like. People controlling weird puppets made of contrasting and purposefully (cartoon) grotesque/gross looking stuff. Gasp the MTT EX reveal could have him coming out from under a curtain/sheet like a a little nod to his ghost origins (yk like sheet ghosts). And there'd probably be a screen or projections used for stuff like the battles, simply because I would want some actual visuals like the game and that's basically impossible to achieve in hypothetical for fun non professional theater. I keep going back and forth between including a narrator (hashtag narrachara, if I found a way to implement a way to choose a route, already getting ideas), and not, bc you don't need one as much. Could be for very specific things. Idk. I'd still want Frisk to be silent bc it's part of their weird kid charm.
Gasp imagine a Deltarune play. Ok ok I'm gonna press the brakes. I wanna think of a set for a hypothetical Fran Bow play. I deadass wanna write it now. Direct even. Would there ever be a way to create a Fran Bow stageplay bc low-key if I don't drop the idea in five seconds and had people doing it with me it would be so epic. I am moving to an artsy college town soon so maybe if I establish theater connections I could actually try 👀
The one problem with all of these games is that they're a little too long to be plays, but I'm sure writing out a script and cutting out obviously gameplay time it might be faster. Hard to tell. I'll lock in.
Someone from Cohort: *says something bad about Dru, Kit, Ty or Jaime*
Ash: *in that ice cold voice and with even colder eyes* If you ever repeat something like that again, I will ruin all your lives in a way that everything my father had done would seem like child's play.
Cohort:
Dru: Babe, I thought we agreed on not to scare the hell out of people...
Ash, Kit, Ty and Jaime:*in unison* People? What people?
