ACT 1

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Mendel, the son of a legendary pool player, that was born with an imagination so powerful that everything he imagined became real to him.

Mendel wanted to live up to his father’s pool legacy but couldn’t because he wasn’t the most gifted pool player.

The only way Mendel could play well was if he used his imagination.

He could grab his pool cue, imagine it was an arrow in a bow, and transport himself to the medieval age to practice archery and gain the skill of precise accuracy.
In this world, every child is born with the ability to turn any boring object into the most extraordinary one. A magic that can teach valuable skills from the infinite worlds children can travel to with their imagination.

But adults cannot see these transformations because as children grow up, adults force them to stop playing with objects that are not toys.
When a child holds up a broomstick, it is just a broom stick to an adult. But to a child it can be Excalibur.

As kids begin to listen to all the grown ups they start to forget about the wonderful ability they had.

Children begin to believe that these boring objects are just ordinary until they completely forget that they once had such a powerful ability and the vicious cycle continues. DB M

Every day, Mendel would practice pool using his imagination, but his father would keep lecturing him more and more everyday saying that he cannot be holding his pool cue as if it was a toy. This would not allow Mendel to play well.

Mendel realized that he had to practice pool in secret so that his father wouldn’t yell at him as he was gaining new skills.

Until one day, his father caught Mendel and screamed at him for not respecting the pool cue. His father had enough.

Mendel's father locks the pool room and tells him that he will never play pool again unless he treats the pool cue with respect.

As Mendel looks out of his bedroom window, angry that he can’t play pool and sad that his father shouted at him, off in the distance he hears the satisfying noise of pool balls being hit mixed with laughter and joy.







Act 2:
Because of that, Mendel runs away to play pool in a place where he thinks his father won’t find him: a smoky pool bar.

Mendel asks to play someone at the bar, but nobody wants to let him play because he is just a child. For fun, they say that he can stay if he beats Victor, the best player at the bar.

Because of that, Mendel gets the table ready and feels a lot of pressure. So he imagines his cue is a baseball bat ready to hit a home run in the game 7 of the world series to gain the knowledge of playing under pressure.

Mendel hears the people around him begin to laugh because of how
he was holding the pool cue. So he snaps out of it and hits the first shot without his imagination

However, Victor spots what Mendel was trying to do and smiles.

Mendel misses his shot and without mercy Victor quickly beats Mendel using all sorts of creative and fun crazy looking shots.

Because of that, Mendel walks out crying and sits outside of the bar.

Victor steps out of the bar with a pool cue and asks Mendel if he wants to play one more time but Mendel says no.

Victor shows Mendel the pool cue and Mendel watches the cue transform into a sword.

Mendel is in awe that an adult has his powers too and asks Victor how it is possible. Victor says that he never let go of his inner child and that his whole life he was stubborn and he stood up against anyone telling him otherwise.

Victor now says “Are you going to play like the adults want you to play, or are you going to stand up for the imagination you have?”

Mendel now accepts another game.

Mendel gets ready to break, and this time inspired by looking at Victor, he turns his cue into a hammer ready to hit a high striker at a carnival with as much strength to win the prize.

Mendel surprisingly doesn’t even give Victor a chance to score because he pockets every ball until the 8-ball is left and people are in utter shock.

Act 3:
Until finally, his father appears at the bar and begins to scold him for running away.

He then sees how Mendel is holding his pool cue and tries to wrestle the pool cue away from Mendel. When his father grabs the pool cue, Mendel doesn’t let go but he looks defeated.

He looks at Victor one last time and as Victor smiles Mendel pulls the pool cue back as he stands up to his father.

As the father begins to pull the pool cue back this time harder than before Mendel smiles and an explosion of imagination occurs

His father has now seen the powers he once had and is now stunned so he stops trying to take the pool cue and instead hugs Mendel as he is overcome by emotion as you can simply hear him say I’m so sorry Mendel

Every day since, Mendel and his father have been playing pool together each in their own unique style of play where Mendel is finally free to play however he wants.