The Bloody Chamber and The Snow Child

We are discussing the possibility of merging two stories together that have already been written as dark fairy tales to give us a platform to begin our script with. The Bloody Chamber and The Snow Child are the favourite stories within the group to use for our story. Due to the lack of characters within the two stories it would require us creating new characters that would be essential to the story and also have intended interaction with the characters already within the story.

After deliberating we came up with the idea that we would adapt The Bloody Chamber to show that there isn’t really any type of ending within reality. So there is no happy ever after and that actions will generally lead to a new story within life. We decided to use the characters; The Count, The Countess, and The Piano Tuner and in put The Snow Child into this story which will then lead on to expanding the story surrounding The Bloody Chamber.

We are intending on producing two new characters that will both be integral to the story and its content. Firstly we are toying with the idea of developing a character that is the all seeing eye within The Counts castle who witnesses all that happens there and all that is said. We are thinking this could be a Housekeeper or Maid type character that will be devoted to serving The Count.

We are also contemplating developing a character that would be an escapee from The Counts chamber who is in the story to warn The Countess of her husbands vile tendencies. This character could be an ex-wife of The Count, who has obviously been affected by what she has seen in her past. The two characters are characters that can be essential to the story but also characters that the actors can work on to make their own and over the coming months can experiment on.

 

Robert Bull