My Idea

I'm looking to improve upon the work I did last year. The play centered around two people lost in the woods, who proceed to argue about what their next course of action should be. Harper the more anxious of the pair believes strongly that they should attempt to find their friends who are also lost. While Alex believes its more practical—and therefore better—to set up camp for the night and look in the morning. This year I thought I'd try and draw out the characters more. They'd come to a clearing with two paths and Harper would be deadset on considering all information available so that they could make "the moral decision" while Alex would argue that they couldn't possibly know everything needed to know to make that decision and so should a) knowingly make the choice to stay and wait or b). admit to randomly selecting one of the paths. Alex would also argue that whatever their decision they would need to take responsibility for it. Harper would be alarmed at the idea of making "the wrong choice" and essentially immobilized by the fear that she might be responsible in some roundabout way for harm coming to her friends (all while insisting they chose "the right path" and move forward). While Alex would protest that not making a choice was in an of itself a choice, and that there wouldn't be any "moral blame" removed from them if they simply delayed choice it in order to "choose the right path". The play would end with Alex posing the problem of decision to Harper one last time.