Last night i did the hardest, and most cause worthy part for a play that i have ever had the gift of playing. I played the role of Matt, one of the five kids who was shot and killed in a school shooting, in the play Bang Bang Youre Dead. This play helps to recognize what exactly is going on in the mind of a popular student that feels alone and trapped, so trapped in fact he kills his parents and goes to school and shoots and kills five of his classmates. This is both an amazing play, as well as an extremly emotional tolling one. Now on to my point, i was just curious to know if anyone has had the pleasure of reading this play and acted in it as well. if so i would like to know exactly how you felt about all of its messages. if you would like to read it go to BangBangyouredead.com V
wow, i thought it said Big Bang Youre Dead at first glimpse....anyways, i have seen this play before, my other school did it this year and i went to see it with some friends.....
My High School was going to be preforming this the year after I graduated and I was asked to come back to direct it, but the school board decided that it was too contraversial and pulled it. I was obviously upset, because this play shows both sides and the bitter and emotional toll that a murder, even a teenager can't handle. There was a movie made for HBO about this play with Ben Foster starring as the killer (sorry i'm blanking on the name) that was so well done that the entire class felt that they had to do this play as a tribute to every school shooting that has caused communities around the world anguish.
I've seen it twice. It's a very moving play. My school's acting team performed it. Afterwards, the entire school divided into sub-groups in the cafeteria and had school-wide discussion on it. The one thing that got to me was the way people were commenting about the truely horrible act of school violence. All the people commenting were limiting their perspective and solutions to status-quo affiliated, psychologically dividing mechanisms. One of the students went on to say there were "jocks, preps, goths, etc etc" and said he didn't know how to solve his problem. The principle, the principle agreed and said 'it's a problem in uniting them.' My friend and I just sat there in aw as we didn't know how to interject ourselves into such a troubled discussion. If I could speak and help for this, I would say forget your materialisms, and collaborate instead of fighting with each other for something. It's an act of consciousness that I think people subliminally dismiss for materialistic fact (the status quo).
Yea, I agree. Those labels are pretty much bull. Most of the people I knew in high school fit into 3 or more of those categories each. I personally fit the nerd, loner, prep (mostly, lol), and freak types, and I loved it. No one quite knew what I was talking about. Ever.
