A Play!

[CWD]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm a drama student and at the moment im starting to write a play about the demise of a young lad through drug addiction. Its set in Southampton, and im wondering whether I should add the demise of SFC as a sort of backdrop to the main plot line. Even suggesting it as a cause for the drug problem.

 

This would add a new dimension for the play as it would also be a commentary on the importance of football in the modern world.

 

So basically as a bit of a distraction to the takeover sh*t, I was wanting your thoughts on a)the idea of the play, and b) what specific moments in the last five years or so made you feel the most depressed, or when you were happiest.

 

thanks, CWD

[Pancake]

Having the demise of SFC as the trigger would be too corny IMHO. Having it a mirror sub plot would be a better idea.

[ChrisPY]

Good idea for the play but I'd stay away from the involvement of the football club. Assuming you're writing in a naturalistic style I'd use the death of someone close to the young lad or the break up of parents as a reason for his addiction. Is this degree or A level work?

[Torres]

Its set in Southampton, and im wondering whether I should add the demise of SFC as a sort of backdrop to the main plot line.Even suggesting it as a cause for the drug problem.

 

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=14135

 

Might be of use....

[INFLUENCED.COM]

I'd use the death of someone close to the young lad

 

SFC ?

[CWD]

Good idea for the play but I'd stay away from the involvement of the football club. Assuming you're writing in a naturalistic style I'd use the death of someone close to the young lad or the break up of parents as a reason for his addiction. Is this degree or A level work?

 

well technically its degree although its not a specific part of my course. Thanks for the heads up, it good to get some views on it, maybe i'll post bits of the script up here for critique!

[CWD]

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=14135

 

Might be of use....

 

Ha brilliant! so it could happen then!

[Block 5]

I'd use the death of someone close to the young lad or the break up of parents as a reason for his addiction.

 

A contributing factor perhaps, but not a reason.

[Hatch]

Why don't you make the young lad one of our players....

[ChrisPY]

Why don't you make the young lad one of our players....

 

If only Nathan Dyer hadn't left...

[Badger]

The young lad could of course be the founder , or administrator of a football fans forum and driven to insanity, drink or drugs (take your pick) by the posters during the collapse of the club.

Events are compounded by either a)abuse he receives after either banning those responsible or b)facing legal proceedings after an antisemitic post during a potential takeover.

 

 

All characters portrayed are of course entirely fictional and not to be based on anyone living or dead.

[Fowllyd]

How about a young man driven to drug addiction by spending far too much time reading (and contributing to) an internet forum about the club he supports? Many of the posts on here could drive anyone into the arms of Morpheus I'd have thought. The play itself could be a bit like Krapp's Last Tape, but with the protagonist sitting in front of a laptop rather than a tape recorder.

[Crab Lungs]

Not directly about drugs, but...

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/02/01/struggling-southampton-fc-blamed-for-increase-in-domestic-violence-115875-21087683/

[Rasiak-9-]

Don't use it as a trigger or reason but as an earlier poster suggested just have the demise of the club running in the background as a sort of mirror.