Acts and Construction.

Six middle aged ex Redhead Beach high school students return to 1969 to resolve the past.

Opening scene in shed
Wager with Mephistopheles
1969 Reunion
Issues of the 60's revolution
Vietnam and conscription
Environment and capitalism
60's pact with audience
Resolution

Act I script structured

The opening scene is a middle-aged man in his shed, drinking Vodka and smoking a bong, suffering regret. An invitation to a high school reunion is pinned to the shed fridge. He attempts to ignore the invitation, but Mephistopheles (the devil) appears and offers him a wager to save his soul by going to the reunion with the group. Mephistopheles gives the group the opportunity to change the past. If the group fail to change the past, Mephistopheles will claim their souls including the audiences' souls as well.

The group reluctantly attend the reunion. Through their interactions, they are transported back to the last year of school breakup party 1969. The interactions are fiery and humorous because it involves a pact they failed to keep. The pact was a commitment to transform the world, represented by the principles of Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll. The principles behind Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll are also marked out through the songs. The issues of selling out one's soul now include the audience who are also at the reunion because they came with the band. Audience participation includes singing, air-guitar and jiving competitions.

Act II free form

Act II of the play is free form. The issues of the 1960s are humorously and hotly debated with audience participation and need to be resolved if we are to transform the world and regain our souls. Free form acting also represented the creativity of the 60's.

The resolution of the play is discovering that regret is an illusion. Everything that happened in the past was due to circumstance and not of choice. We fabricate the illusion of choice after the event. All that matters is family and friends and living a free life in the present. The group with audience participation form a pact to chage the future and transform the world. The show ends with everyone singing and dancing.

RHB Act I

Scene 1: Shed with Mephistopheles.

Song: Back to RHB (solo)

Scene 2: Arrive at re-union.

Song: Good ol Rock'n'Roll

Scene 3: (1969) Pact, sex and drugs.

Song: Good ol Rock'n'Roll

Scene 4: Daisy arrives.

Song: Keep the faith (solo)

Scene 5: (1969) Issues of Politics, war, environment.

Song: Side step shuffle

Scene 6: Sex Politics Environment (audience).

Scene 7: (1969) Daisy returns to past and hears music.

Song: Will you be my love

Scene 8: (1969) Martin Luther King dies.

Scene 9: Group discuss conscription and how they sold out.

Scene 10: (1969) Conscription. "All the way with LBJ".

Scene 11: Pamela and Renata tell Daisy to let go.

Song: Mr Sandman

Scene 12: Renata "We dream of an imagined past".

Scene 13: (1969) Daisy's dream, rain, lightening.

Song: Please let me go (beginning only)

Scene 14: Vietnam -- Daisy remains to care for children.

Song: There's no war worth dying for.

RHB Act II

Scene 1: Bong placed on table.

Song: Were killing everyone

Scene 2: Environment and economics.

Song: What we need is love

Scene 3: Phillip's affair confronted.

Song: Let it rain

Scene 4: Pamela and Phillip let go.

Scene 5: Pamela and Renata resolve the past.

Song: Please let me go (complete)

Scene 6: Ghost scene, letting go.

Scene 5: Renata comes alive.

Song: Renata

Scene 6: Renata and Marcus together.

Scene 7: Group consolidate with Daisy.

Song: When the show will close

Scene 8: Celebrate.

Scene 9: Pact re-made with audience.

Song: Never say die

Scene 10: Finale.