Post by sjoisan on Mar 29, 2011 9:30:04 GMT -5
Hi Guys,
recently I saw a play where the main character got HIV, knocked-up and dumped all at the same time. After finding put she has HIV the main character attempts suicide. Now when her best friends pick her up from the hospital after her suicide attempt they get on her case for not being more careful in the first place. Now I don't know about you, but I would never give my friend a lecture at a moment like that. I'd wait until I felt like there was no danger of her trying commit suicide and even then maybe I wouldn't.
My roommate is actually in the play, as the main character. I found out through my roommate that the director requested that the playwright put in the bit where her friends lecture her for not being more careful. The director's reasoning was that after this heap of troubles get piled on her things go a lot better for the character and no actually ever talks to her about safe sex.
While I can understand where the director might have been coming from to me that is a bad choice because it makes her friends seem mean and bitchy. In fact I could see where she might attempt another suicide.
I'm posting this for two reasons. One I have a similar moment in the story that I'm working on and two I kind of understand the director wanting to stress that safe-sex is important to the audience.
Now my main character doesn't get HIV, but she does get a whole heap of troubles piled on her at once. Through her own foolishness she has made a bad situation worse. I figured if her friends and family are going to be supportive they would be cruel to lecture her under circumstances similar to the ones listed above.
My roommate feels that somebody ought to, because well somebody ought to. But in the situation described above I figure getting HIV and pregnant and being dumped all at the same time are all the encouragement one needs to practice safe sex. And its almost as if the director is being either A) preachy or B) trying unnecessarily to avoid some type of Mary Sue label. What do you guys think?
recently I saw a play where the main character got HIV, knocked-up and dumped all at the same time. After finding put she has HIV the main character attempts suicide. Now when her best friends pick her up from the hospital after her suicide attempt they get on her case for not being more careful in the first place. Now I don't know about you, but I would never give my friend a lecture at a moment like that. I'd wait until I felt like there was no danger of her trying commit suicide and even then maybe I wouldn't.
My roommate is actually in the play, as the main character. I found out through my roommate that the director requested that the playwright put in the bit where her friends lecture her for not being more careful. The director's reasoning was that after this heap of troubles get piled on her things go a lot better for the character and no actually ever talks to her about safe sex.
While I can understand where the director might have been coming from to me that is a bad choice because it makes her friends seem mean and bitchy. In fact I could see where she might attempt another suicide.
I'm posting this for two reasons. One I have a similar moment in the story that I'm working on and two I kind of understand the director wanting to stress that safe-sex is important to the audience.
Now my main character doesn't get HIV, but she does get a whole heap of troubles piled on her at once. Through her own foolishness she has made a bad situation worse. I figured if her friends and family are going to be supportive they would be cruel to lecture her under circumstances similar to the ones listed above.
My roommate feels that somebody ought to, because well somebody ought to. But in the situation described above I figure getting HIV and pregnant and being dumped all at the same time are all the encouragement one needs to practice safe sex. And its almost as if the director is being either A) preachy or B) trying unnecessarily to avoid some type of Mary Sue label. What do you guys think?