AUTHOR'S NOTE + SYNOPSIS
AUTHOR'S NOTE + SYNOPSIS
The Unauthorized Occupation of Patty Hearst
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+ SCENE LIST + PLOT POINTS
ACT TWO
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Outside the Hearst home the media speculates, public opinion turns sour and the mystery deepens
The Question Remains (Reprise)
2 - 1
Mr. Hearst helplessly revisits a dream where a 4-yr-old Patty is taken away by an apocalyptic storm
Come Back
2 - 2
Mrs. Hearst blames the whole situation on herself
A Mother's Nature
2 - 3
My Favorite Red Bedspread
In a fantasy flashback, 8-year-old Patty reinterprets her childhood to rationalize her present path
2 - 4
Patty rescues two shoplifting comrades with zombie-like programmed reflexes and a spray of gunfire
There Are Many Ways To Be A Good Girl
2 - 5
When Patty and the SLA carjack a teenager, he’s delighted to be joyriding with his famous captors
Revolutionaries Man
2 - 6
The world watches on live TV as the SLA are burned alive – Patty realizes the FBI wants her dead
No Going Back Now
2 - 7
As If I Never Was At All
After his death, Cinque exposes his humanity as he concedes the regrets of his unfulfilled dreams
2 - 8
The Road
2 - 9
Patty and the surviving SLA members travel onward in a brief interstitial vignette
Mr. and Mrs. Hearst endure a year-long stretch of aching uncertainty as Patty drops off the radar
The Year of Missing You
2 - 10
Monday Morning Through My Eyes
2 - 11
During a bank-robbery, a murder victim rebukes romanticizing outlaws and glamorizing violence
Arrested
2 - 12
The FBI arrest Patty, igniting a media frenzy and giving her parents new hope
Shrink Intake
Five psychiatrists send Patty on a journey of self-reflection – she narrates two intertwined trains of thought
2 - 13
Bailey’s vainglorious rehearsal for the trial reveals his corrupt agenda that outrageously parallels the SLA's
Places Everyone
2 - 14
2 - 15
Trial and Errors
In the courtroom, Patty's bank robbery defense of “mind control” is mocked by the team of Federal prosecutors…
But Then They Made Me
…and rejected by the jury – who echo Patty’s feelings of being unfairly coerced
2 - 16
2 - 17
Imaginary Girl
While escorted to prison, Patty laments that now she has no identity at all now – except the false ones put on her
2 - 18
Prelude to The Eleventh Hour
A prelude to an instrumental “11-o’clock number” contemplates the uncertainty of last-minute cliffhangers
2 - 19
The Silence of My Innocence
Patty refuses to betray her own innocence with a confession of guilt to reduce her sentence
2 - 20
The Eleventh Hour
An instrumental “11-o’clock number” transforms everything
2 - 21
The Hero of Our Own Life Story
Released from prison by President Carter, Patty has a life-changing insight into why
the jury condemned her – a compassionate awakening to the flaws and frailties of human nature
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SYNTHESIZING: INSTINCT VISION VOICE EMOTION & MEANING
IMAGINARY GIRL: The Occupation of Patty Hearst – book, lyrics & music © Leonard Dolivio Cetrangolo