(Once in the space / bunker, two additional features are visible: a live band, playing as best they can while wearing Hazmat suits, and dominating the space an enormous Grandfather CLOCK, ticking away ominously. If possible an actor planted in the queue to enter the space should be found to have a fever and be prohibited from entering / dragged out by security.) Possibly as they enter each audience member is scanned by a (fake?) no-touch thermometer. There should be at least a couple of armed guards/ mercenaries. (The entrance to the space should resemble as much as possible the sealable door of a BUNKER. However, scrawled on the wall above those materials are the words “THIS WILL NOT SAVE YOU. ( At a table ideally the audience will be able to put on face masks or avail themselves of some antibacterial hand sanitizer. ( If the play is taking place in a single performance space instead of web/streaming video, then on the way in to the space the audience should pass signs reminding them “WASH HANDS THOROUGHLY” and “DO NOT TOUCH YOUR FACE.”) “Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak,”The Guardian, March 11, 2020.Īdditionally, way too many lines of The Prince are quoted verbatim from a public figure. “The Rich Are Preparing for Coronavirus Differently,” New York Times, March 5, 2020. Well as inspired by two newspaper articles: Adapted from “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, as
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