Produce my rock musical play

adjective
1 empty
2 invalid

Noun
1 an empty space
2 an awareness of loss(after departure or death of a loved one)

“I know I don’t fit in. And it’s part of my duty
not to fit in. It’s part of my duty to humanity.
I feel things, I express things that haven’t yet
been felt and expressed, and that is my
justification. And I ask the state to employ me
on trust and pay me without understanding
what I am up to”

“The Duty of Society to the Artist” by
E.M. Forster.

Void is a musical about following dreams, facing reality and finding money. It is also about how strong opposition comes in the way of anyone who chooses to balance out these three.

DAUGHTER is a poet. Daughter is also a reluctant and recent business graduate. She lives in the Real World where everything seems to be going wrong – from the ecosystem to the economy.

Bearing the brunt of this world is MOTHER who is at the very edge of financial ruin. When AUNT, her elder sister and business woman extraordinaire, “pulls some strings and ropes” to secure for her recently graduated niece a job in the finance sector, Mother is understandably overjoyed. She sees this as the solution to all her financial problems and an excellent return on the investment she had made in Daughter four years earlier.

Daughter, when given this “good news”, gets the blues. The reason behind her reaction is revealed in the nightmare she has later that night. The nightmare occurs in the Financial World, “where every boy and every girl/aspires after dimes and pearls”. She is taunted and teased because she is a poet – impractical, a nuisance and (horror of horrors!) a dreamer. No words are minced in letting her know that she is an outsider, an alien, and that she will never belong in the Financial World.

This nightmare prompts Daughter to seek an audience with Aunt in order to make a last appeal to be allowed to follow her passion. Her pleas fall on deaf ears. An argument ensues between the two, culminating in Daughter’s decision to follow her dream inspite of Mother, Aunt and the pressures of the Real World.

The second act is mainly about Daughter’s struggle with her three Demons; DOUBT, DREAD and DESPAIR. Their goal? To ensnare Daughter because she had dared to follow her heart.

It turns out that Despair is the meanest of the three. Daughter almost succumbs to this demon’s depths – the depths of Despair. Luckily, the three Celestials, COURAGE, CONVICTION and CONFIDENCE appear to encourage her as she wages battle against Despair.

After a deadly struggle between Daughter and Despair, part of which takes place atop a high wire, Daughter emerges the victor and Despair sinks into her own depths, where she belongs. Alone.

Daughter then prepares to begin her journey. She calls Mother to say her goodbyes because she knows she will not be going back. She finishes her soda then at long last, sets out to follow her passion.