Staged Reading Experience

Preparing for this staged reading was an interesting process for me because I have never been a part of the theatre arts as a participant. It was a cool experience to see us go through various ideas in developing our interpretation of the piece. I think we ended up with a very original and very interesting “final” product, in as much as a staged reading can be final. We bounced around several wild ideas in hopes of coming up with the “craziest” idea and therefore the best. However, I discovered that having that mindset served as a catalyst to open this play up to new ideas. In the course of our thinking we came up with the concept of the modern-day struggle and constriction of the lower middle-class, white collar worker. Our idea was that D and A were individuals who had gone through the system already and now served to lead others down the same path. We wanted P to start out confident and excited about the future, but by the end to be disenchanted with the reality of the life he so desperately sought. L was representative of the blue collar worker who exists mostly in the background as the infrastructure of the economic world.