Disruption Presents As A Dramatic Stage Play

At the Kearsarge 2018 Regional Theatre Festival, Oyster River High School gave a performance of Peter Tarsi’s Tracks. The play, depicting multiple characters navigating the afterlife, uses its production elements effectively throughout to help convey the story. As a whole, the actors’ performances help to define their characters, who are often portrayed as modern archetypes. But despite all this, the play falls victim to the inconsistencies and often plodding nature of the script. Ultimately, the poor story structure stops the entire production in its tracks.

The struggles depicted in the book Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns caused Will Tweedy to be the way he is. For instance, as the novel progresses Will sees many struggles. One of them is death. It mentions a couple of times of Will’s friend Bluford Jackson of getting some firecrackers for Christmas and burning his hand with one of them and died ten days later of lockjaw. This death in particular Will thinks it’s his fault for happening that it could have been avoided. Another example is his grandmother’s death and Aunt Loma’s husband Campbell Williams. Campbell Williams had suicided himself because Loma and Rucker criticize him constantly which drove him to

The play is episodic. Tension builds throughout each scene so that the audience can see the deeper mystery and bigger

A short play is usually filled with a theatrical energy of diverse anthologies. The time allotted may be only ten or fifteen minutes, so it must be able to capture and engage the audience with some dramatic tension, exciting action, or witty humor. Just as in a short story, a great deal of the explanation and background is left for the reader or viewer to discover on their own. Because all the details are not explicitly stated, each viewer interprets the action in their own way and each experience is unique from someone else viewing the same play. Conflict is the main aspect that drives any work of literature, and plays usually consist of some form of conflict. In “Playwriting 101:

His presenting self was the safeguard to his private self. Will was very much aware of his gift and his enormous potential but shunned it like some burden, or at least that's what he wanted others to believe. He often told Sean Maguire, his shrink with whom he had developed a bond, that his gift was something he didn't ask for, and he'd be perfectly fine working an honorable blue-collar job with his buddies. Despite his assertion regarding his gift as an aggravation Will's actions contradict, for he is asked why he just so happened to get a custodial job in the world's foremost institute for technology, M.I.T if he wanted nothing to do with his genius. Maguire sees behind Will's visage, he realizes Will is a wounded soul who really knows nothing about life for he hasn't experienced it, it is so much more that what he read in a book. It is hard to say what Will should have done for he had a difficult past one that most cannot relate too, or have any idea what it may be like to live it. However, If Will had been a little more open to the people who wanted to love him he would have been much happier. In his quest to never be hurt he was headed for a life where he would never be loved. His thoughts were becoming a self-fulfilling prophesy; where one's expectations of an event make that event more likely to occur (Adler, 65). Had Will been honest with himself and more willing

Will 's group of friends seem to pick on him and judge him, which questions if they are truly his friends or not and if he truly fits in with him.

Overall, Will has had a troubling life, never feeling like he actually belonged. He was afraid to be smart and at the same time afraid to not be. The physical and mental abuse he suffered at the hands of those who are supposed to protect him, definitely scared him

This play is about the experiences of a dying school boy, it is a celebration of life and the power to heal through gaining insight.

Will’s decisions are a bit immature because he didn’t have much experience about life and using his brain for significant things. Will’s therapist says, “So if I asked you about art you could give me the skinny on every art book ever written... Michelangelo? ” (47.01) and that’s because Will’s thoughts are just about the books he read. And he doesn’t think and make decisions like an adult. Even his best friend knows that he is a genius and wants him to work for something significant, Will doesn’t want to use his intelligence for important things he just wants to keep having fun with his friends. That shows Holden and Will’s make their decisions poorly and without thinking.

The overall dramatic meaning of this play has been successfully shown by the elements of drama. The

In the play “Tape” we are introduced with an unspecified person and unknown attendant. From the start of it all, there seems to be a bit of tension, but we don’t know exactly why. This is all fine but if the play had gone on longer, the readers would’ve had a chance to become more absorbed in the meaning, thus being able to relate. We find out somewhere

    The lack of background information on the murder forces Will to take an uninformed and emotional course of action, but even if Will had known the circumstances of the crime, he still would not have been more rational.  Upon hearing of the old men’s gathering, his immediate reaction  is to fight, and several characters attest to his violent nature.  While he claims to have been friends with Beau, it becomes patent that he only wants revenge because of his racism.  In the scene where Beau’s brother pleads with his father not to start a fight, a

Will uses anger, denial, and sarcasm as defense mechanisms to push people away from him. He told people that he did not have a problem and that they were the ones with the problem. He used

To begin with, in this play the author unfolds family conflicts that involve its characters into a series of events that affected their lives and pushed them to unexpected ways.

Will is defensive towards everyone he comes in contact with. He experiences incongruence with his cockiness of being smarter than most but he doesn't feel he deserves better than living as a nobody.