What do you think of this as an idea for a play?

As a new member to this site, I wasn't entirely sure I would receive a response to my post, so no small thanks goes to; "Na", "Logos", and Craig for their intial responses and earnest insights. I appreciate it very much and I want to tell you three that you have made me feel welcome. Anyway, let's continue dancing, indeed. I'm what some will call an "aspiring writer" - which seems like code, these days, for wanting to turn a hobby into a profession - so I value the inspirational and insightful story-structure details. I can see the good sense of setting out to write this play in One Act and then using intervals if and when they're needed and as described. A play people will want to read, see, or hear is one which will often need cliffhangers, twists and complications. If I keep in mind what Craig has outlined than that's solved for now. Thanks again, Craig. The warning on including too much story here, in fear of having someone else write the story first is very much a valid one. Thanks for the heads-up, "Logos". I'm a fast writer and will use the popular script registration the Writer's Guild offers to stamp a date on the work when it's finished. The storyline: If we take and use our world famous actor here in Australia, Cate Blanchett, as inspiration for our lead heroine than what we have is the beginnings of our exploration of her justification for her setting out on this particular course of her life. She is a woman who is loved the world over, no doubt. However, she comes to the realization that even with the power of this massive celebrity she can't really do much about such a trivial thing as it first appears; her neighbours keeping her and her family up, night after night, week in week out. While the idea to move comes up, she realizes there's a bigger thing at play here. Essentially, she can't do much about being surrounded by people she dislikes or who she judges as unworthy of being in her presence. People not as educated as her, or those simply who don't have her impeccable manners and refinement. To a large extent she can control who comes near her. But, she lives in society and not on some mythical patch of turf above it, so as in society she will eventually come into contact with a number of people she finds undesirable and has no control of meeting. Not just her neighbours mind you, it's these "clingy, sweaty people" from the wings of common life as she describes them. She sees herself as intellectually superior so if she can solve the problems posed at the "Canberra Summit" she can solve the problem of this pressing need to become something more in her life and create this utopia for herself and her burgeoning family. Yes, there is some more to flesh out here to round off this need for her, emotionally, but it's pretty much on the surface and with "Na's" suggestion of researching Cults on the internet, I should find the common thread inherent in most, if not all, cult leaders before they became cult leaders. "Na's" cynical aspect idea for the story may be good to explore if I get stuck, but at this stage it feels better to explore this dark need of her's from the pit of her emotional being. I'm sure we all know or can sense the dynamics behind people's attractions with such things, so getting beneath her skin, so to speak, should prove easy enough. I can do wit, but comedy is not my strong suit so I'm not sure I could pull-off a "funny show". On the other hand a play does need laughs in the right places as Ira Levine would say, so I won't discount satire entirely. To continue; I get her to the meeting with a new visitor in her life (possible love interest here) which is the real estate guy, let's give him the refined name of Reginald; who offers her the slice of country NSW property which will accomodate her vision and drive to get this thing going. As mentioned, and being true to the idea - which makes Reginald more likely to be her lover - is the notion that he sparks the cult idea in her mind. Maybe he says something like (and this is the only thing I know about cults apart from a few things about the R/C medieval cults) that Australia was the first country to deem Scientology as not a cult, in fact, but a religion. The intricacies of such a judgement is really interesting to explore and seems it could be a real pivot in the story, where and when it would fit. Then, country life begins for her and her family, amongst tertiary students who come to stay by camping on the expansive property. If she can manipulate the media, there shouldn't be too much difficulty of doing the same with students who bow before her temptress ways. What is here that will interest audiences? Is it sex? Is it the likely failing of yet another utopia? Is it both? Is it the continual exploration of her need to be in this position, amongst these "normal" people as she calls them? Or, is it something common in Australian society which has an opened dialogue, but which hasn't been explored thoroughly? The lights come down and the music fades... Thanks guys.