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Well, you have to help write the libretto.
Anyways, good stuff.
One thing - to add some more intricacy to the plot:
Perhaps it doesn't happen during WWI, but rather in the future. But in a future where it seems like the past. You know, ladies are all wearing long dresses, everything is very traditional, but there are some subtle hints that this happens in the not too difference future. Maybe a reference to the "fall of America?"
Also, here's some more plot stuff that might make things more interesting.
The woman's father works for the "eugenics board."
Her father and his cronies want to evict him from his house, but they can't because it's just on the outskirts of town.
In order to get him gone, they have to prove that he's insane to the council (which is like the legal system, and it's different from the eugenics board).
It seems the only way to prove that he's insane is through his daughter, who seems to have a relationship with this man.
His daughter won't provide any evidence, because she loves him.
By the way, at this point I have to explain that what i meant when the fake woman tries to kill her is that really it is the man who tries to kill her, thinking it is his creation that is trying to kill her.
I think it might be better, and more subtle perhaps, if instead of him trying to kill her, he just sits down with her, back to back, and whispers "you have to get out of here. you have to protect yourself, otherwise she will kill you."
At that point, she realizes that she's not safe around him, and turns him in to her father, who now has the evidence he needs to have the insane man killed.
So basically it's a genocidal society which has almost achieved perfection except this one man.
Some themes that come out of this are:
everything works really well and everyone is really happy in their every day life until this insane man gets involved in things.
People think that they can acheive perfection by killing off things that are different, but human biology perpetuates differences. Perhaps at some point in the opera, the lady's sister can have a baby who everyone expects to be perfect (after all, he has a perfect celebrity father) but turns out to have mental defects. The theme is "differences can't be wiped out"
The man represents us, America, democracy. The town represents them, Germany, Aryans, fascism. This opera starts out by showing us a totally new perspective: a racist fascist society that operates perfectly. Meanwhile, the democratic crazy man who fosters diversity in all of his creations lives in a wreck (which in his mind is a palace.) This shows that our society is not as great as we think, but that our perfection is a delusion, and maybe our enemies are truly right.
But at the end of the play, after the crazy man is executed, that baby is born, other things happen, etc. proving that you can't eliminate bad from a society.
Yah?
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