Bluebeard's Bride - Book of Mirrors - Vacant Hotel - Play Materials.pdf

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The Date
“He has had trouble finding love, but she is something special...”
token track
Do you arrive to the final room as a faithful Date whose
trust in her generous boyfriend is well placed?
Or are you a disloyal Date, who harbors unkind suspicions?
faithfulness
disloyalty
The Boyfriend’s Suite
“You traveled these dark halls in search of a truth most divisive. Each room provided you with all the evidence you desired to
make that one fateful choice. Now you stand before the forbidden final room and you must decide...”
faithful
outcome
When the Date finds enough evidence
to determine that her boyfriend is the
one, she faces a terrible choice.
Go around the table and ask the
Sisters if the Date chooses to...
Enter the boyfriend’s suite?
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What are the Date’s final apologetic
words to Bluebeard before he kills her?
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What room does the Date’s soul
reside in after her death?
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What about the way Bluebeard
integrates the Date’s corpse into the
hotel brings her comfort and joy?
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How does the Date punish
future dates for transgressions
against Bluebeard?
Resist entering the suite?
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Where does Bluebeard display the
intimate photos the Date sent him
before coming to the hotel?
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How does Bluebeard reward the
Date for remaining loyal to him?
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What humiliating role does the
Date take up in the hotel to be close
to Bluebeard?
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How does the Date participate when
Bluebeard brings other women to
the hotel to satisfy his needs?
disloyal
outcome
When the Date finds enough evidence
to prove her boyfriend’s malicious
intentions, she faces a terrible choice.
Go around the table and ask the
Sisters if the Date chooses to...
Run away and report his crimes?
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What disgraceful or shameful act
does the Date perform to secure her
keys from the valet?
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How do the authorities punish the
Date for her misconduct during the
encounter at the hotel?
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What restitution must the Date pay
to Bluebeard to “apologize” for ruining
his name and reputation?
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What dark fantasy from the hotel
ruins each new intimate relationship
the Date attempts to form?
Run away to find love elsewhere?
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What inviolable mark from the hotel
does the Date bear on her body?
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What troubling characteristic of
Bluebeard’s does the Date look for in
prospective suitors?
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What token of Bluebeard’s does the
Date keep by her bedside?
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What drives the Date to read
Bluebeard’s affectionate emails every
anniversary of her escape?
shattered
outcome
When the Date Shatters completely,
her fragmented mind now craves
things it did not before. She faces a
terrible choice.
Go around the table and ask the
Sisters if the Date chooses to...
Do everything in her power to
make herself more desirable?
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Which room of the hotel traps the
Date’s soul for eternity?
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How does the Date flaunt her rela-
tionship with Bluebeard to others?
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Why is the Date never truly worthy
of Bluebeard’s love?
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How does the Date’s body change to
meet Bluebeard’s perverse needs?
Help Bluebeard find true love?
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Where does the Date go to find
new women to bring to the hotel
for Bluebeard?
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What wisdom does the Date impart
to the women in the hopes they
make Bluebeard truly happy?
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What does the Date do to those
women who prove unworthy?
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What is the only thing that feeds the
Date and makes her feel alive?
your tale of
bluebeard’s
vacant hotel
The Groundskeeper
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Breathe unnatural life into the hotel.
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Address yourself to the Sisters, not
the players.
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Give each inhabitant of the hotel a drive.
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Ask about the Date’s fears and build on
the answers.
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Veil your moves with mystery.
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Fill the hotel with the echoes of violence.
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Blur the line between the ordinary and
the monstrous.
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Lay claim to the Date’s body, history,
dreams, and future
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Center the story on women’s experiences.
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Remind the Date of the promise of love.
principles
1. The Sisters are created.
2. The Date is left alone at the hotel.
3. One by one, the rooms are explored:
“The room beckons. You enter, and
the door closes behind you.”
4. Evidence is gathered.
5. The boyfriend’s suite is exposed.
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Make the Date and her experiences
feel real.
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Fill the Sisters’ lives with fear & horror.
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Play to find out what the Date chooses.
agendas
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Hint at off-screen horrors.
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Present evidence of previous dates’ suffering.
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Invoke the hotel’s memories and secrets.
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Undermine the Date’s senses.
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Remind the Date of her limits, physical
and social.
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Put the Date in danger, emotional or physical.
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Inflict trauma, as established.
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Introduce attendants or horrors.
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Offer an opportunity at a cost.
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Turn their move back on them.
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Make a room move.
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After every move: “What do you do?”
groundskeeper
moves
rooms
bar, basement, business center, dining
room, executive suite, exercise room, house-
keeper’s closet, kitchen, laundry, lounge,
penthouse, pool, reception, suite, supply
closet, utility room, vending room
objects
bedside Bible, bloody sheets, book of inde-
cipherable script, bottle of salt, decanter,
dirty hand towel, goat skull, hidden porn
mag, ice bucket and pick, incense, pentacle,
robe, small bottles of alcohol, used condom
attendants
bartender, bellhop, chef, concierge, cook,
elevator operator, gardener, general
manager, housekeeper, maid, maintenance
worker, night clerk, pool cleaner, porter,
receptionist, valet, waiter
gifts
Animus:
Fatale:
Mother:
Sibyl:
Virgin:
(The Date’s submission)
look
Hands:
Mouth:
Figure:
Hair:
Eyes:
(The Date’s insecurities)
what was left behind
(The Date’s fears)
Animus:
Fatale:
Mother:
Sibyl:
Virgin:
Room Threats
body
subsets
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Beauty Standards
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Disability
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Eating Disorders
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Gender
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Illness
occult
subsets
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Ascension
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Ceremony
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Preparation
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Radicalization
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Sacrifice
romance
subsets
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Deception
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Destiny
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Exhibition
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Loneliness
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Submission
sexuality
subsets
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Abortion
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Humiliation
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Nymphomania
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Perversion
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Sexual Violence
room moves
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Drug her
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Perform a medical procedure
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Shame her by introducing a
perfect woman
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Paper the room with what
society demands
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Showcase a flaw for all to see
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Exhibit consequences of a
transgressive woman
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Give her the tools she needs
to be beautiful
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Tempt her with gems,
clothes, or delectable delights
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Bind her body in satin
and silk
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Make her hair, teeth, or
fingernails fall off
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Reflect the beauty of guests
past and future
room moves
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Give her power she
can’t control
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Use her in a ritual or rite
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Whisper and scream
her name
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Raise her above others
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Curse her
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Demand more than she
can give
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Fill her cup with the blood of
those who failed before
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Destroy her normality
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Shackle her with responsibility
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Infect her with the
poisonous future
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Show her things once locked
away and covered up
room moves
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Flatter her with lies
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Line her path with
rose petals
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Shower her with gifts she
does not need
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Tell her she is “the one”
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Smother her till she
can’t breathe
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Stalk her from the shadows
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Ask her to give herself
completely
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Show her what she does not
wish to see then soothe her
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Touch her in ways she has
never been touched
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Show her she is nothing
without Bluebeard’s love
room moves
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Advance on a woman with
touch, words, or display
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Impregnate her with words,
ritual, or a lie
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Break her sexuality with
critiques or aggression
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Show the inherent perversity
of objects
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Invite her to join a
promiscuous act
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Educate her on how she
should please her boyfriend
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Show what Bluebeard enjoys
in art, books, and toys
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Infect someone with a
sexual disease
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Condemn a partner or a
child with violence or words
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Ask what she desires and
parade it in public
The Moves
Maiden Moves
Care for Someone
When you
care for someone
(attendant or horror), you ease their
suffering and bridle their torment.
They may demand a demonstration of your sincerity.
Investigate a Mysterious Object
When you
investigate a mysterious object
from a room, ask two:
1
1
1
1
Whose item is this?
What memories does this item hold?
What about this item is odd or uncanny?
Why did Bluebeard keep this item?
Take Stock
When you
take stock
of a tense situation, ask one:
1
1
1
1
What stalks the Date from the shadows?
What traps have been laid for the Date?
What does this place demand of the Date?
What horror here is hidden from the Date?

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