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Play about Mid Peninsula Free University course in suicide

1. The main scene is on the railing of the Golden Gate Bridge.  The
characters make little speeches and jump or not as the case may be.

2. It starts in the Free U store.  Rob Crist is a major character
but probably he shouldn't lead the course in suicide.  More likely
the course is led by some jerk in reaction to Rob's course on sex.
However, Rob enunciates the Free U philosophy that anybody can lead
a course in anything and the students in the suicide course take
their own responsibility for what happens.

3. Are there one or two drug takers.

4. At the beginning there are two few of something to go around.
The last line is that after the carnage, there are now enough.

5. A prosaic person is the hero.  A business school student who
wanders into the store, takes the course, not imagining that anyone
would actually jump.

6. A policeman and a reporter are involved in the discussion on
the bridge, but they are both induced to tell their troubles and
eventually jump.  Perhaps the reporter, worried about his deadline,
(TV reporter) has done something that egged someone on to jump.
His jumping is triggered by someone badgering him into telling
about other times when he has manufactured news.

7. The year is 1968.  Perhaps someone (a radical who jumps) talks
about how much better Vietnam will be after the people have won.
Anyway there should be some anachronistic political talk.
Suitable music should be played.  Rolling stones, Doors, Airplane,
Great Society, Grateful Dead, Beatles, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan.

8. Hilbert's speech about the student who committed suicide starts
out with praise about the lost talent, and then turns to remarking,
well, he couldn't really have had good ideas or he would have wanted
to stay around and see how they turned out.

9. The complaints are caricatures of the complaints that various
people have against their parents, their teachers, society.