The Serphent: One Person, One Society, One Lemming
The play is set to be after the Vietnam War; a time of great tragedy and confusion. People wanted to be different, to break free, and discover what freedom really is. All the while a war was going on. This is where The Serpent starts, with an autopsy of a body. The cast slowly takes the body apart separating what makes a human a human, physically at first, but then the play breaks away to the next scene and goes deeper than flesh. The actors use storytelling of some famous events in history that had great tragedy. All the sins of these tragedies or then related to the first temptation, an apple tree in the Garden of Eden. The cast does not have roles, rather they embody identities that every human can relate to. The play breaks down each event like the story of Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel into the sources of pain and suffering that are within those stories into scenes of pure words and emotions. This is to give the audience an understanding of how human folly has developed throughout years and years.
