Lately, I have been having issues leading to frustration with a group I'm involved with that does rehearsals for a stage play over the summer. What the group does is create their own script for a play instead of using an existing one and I have been given permission to write a scene that involves the use of stuffed animals as puppets into the script as their assistant writer since I can do playwrighting.
Since I had gotten suggestions to do a lost boy and Captain Kangaroo, I ended up attempting to merge them both and came up with the idea of a boy dressed like a koala who is a half breed of human and koala fae with a connection to the eucalyptus woods. While I was working on this character of mine, I was hearing about clear-cutting of eucalyptus trees in Australia and became sad because of what it doing to the poor koalas.
That is what gave me the idea to make the puppet scene be deep in the eucalyptus forest in a mystical place that is full of koalas called Koalawalla Woods, and depict the plight of the koalas and the threat of clear cutters. The story I came up with is an elder koala is the first one to see men coming into the outskirts of the eucalyptus forest and start to clear cut eucalyptus trees.
It concerns him greatly that he sends a young boy koala to Koalawalla Woods in order to inform my namesake on here of the dire situation. She becomes really concerned about the clear cutters and wonders what can they do since she is known as Koala Mother who cares for all the koalas. She is also worried about the welfare of the koala dressed boy as she shares a special bond with him due to him being part koala fae.
The boy being nearby overhears the commotion there and wants to know what is going on. Koala Mother informs him about the loggers clear cutting eucalyptus trees and is not sure if there is anything they can do against them. He then states they may need to inform the fairy queen he is under the protection of about their dire situation. The young boy koala overhears him saying this and goes back to the elder koala to tell him this.
At the same time, Koala Mother gets more visitors coming by wondering what is going on and if there is something they can do against the loggers. While she is in the middle of talking to an elfling girl who happens to be in the area and wonders how she can help the koalas, the young boy returns and whispers in her ear. She tells the elfling girl to hold her thought on what she is saying and speaks to the young koala boy.
He informs Koala Mother the fairy queen requested for the koala dressed boy to go to this location to find this crystal stone they need to save Koalawalla Woods, and she needs her to open a portal there. Koala Mother reluctantly agrees that could be their only hope and opens a portal to where the crystal stone can be found in the same fashion Pinky or Printy opens her portals in the old Noozles cartoon.
After I have submitted this to be the puppetry scene in the group's play I'm involved with since I had felt that I wanted to depict the plight of the koalas to the audience and gain attention of it in a way. Even though it was accepted, I was never informed of the koala dressed boy being written into the rest of the play to fall down on the ground and is dying like he is being killed off, and I didn't approve of this.
Right now, I'm preparing to submit a further edit I made to their script that fixes this and makes more sense, but if they don't approve of it, I will no longer be involved in their play and pull my character and puppet scene out of it. If it does come to that, I'm wondering if anyone here may know of a community that would be interested in my ideas here. I can expand on them alone without them being compacted with the rest of a play.
For now, I have removed my edit since there is a lot of shit going on now with this and there might be a chance of a resolution, even though I'm feeling somewhat down in the dumps.