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

Not to nitpick, but as an aspiring writer, can you please use paragraphs? That's really hard to read... (And here I'll add that I did an editing course and so it's natural for me to 'nitpick' in this fashion) EDIT: Never mind, just saw your apology... Anyway, the common thread of any cult seems to be having a charismatic leader (find out more about where 'drinking the kool aid' phrase comes from, or look at fundamentalist Christian groups for examples, or as mentioned, scientology), as well as perhaps an idea of 'salvation'. There's plenty of cults out there who believe aliens are coming to save us too. The issue for you I think will be making your character charismatic enough to pull something like that off, whilst still retaining a certain amount of obnoxiousness as required by her being snobbish. Another thing you could look at is an architect (I forget the name, but he's very famous, American, and worked in the 60s) who set up a whole camp where he would invite students to develop ideas and designs. It became very cult like (I wish I could remember the name now) Perhaps combining a throng of young idealistic/naive actors on a camp somewhere works as a cult? Anyway, just some thoughts... Singing oyster shadow puppet for sale at Puppets in Melbourne