Boys' Life


 * 1) Boys' Life by Howard Korder
 * 2) Comedy full act
 * 3) Phil, Don, and Jack.
 * 4) Adults beyond. It has very serious material and language.
 * 5) How I wish to match the tone of the play with my comments, but I'll dim it down for the school environment.
 * 1) Adults beyond. It has very serious material and language.
 * 2) How I wish to match the tone of the play with my comments, but I'll dim it down for the school environment.
 * 1) How I wish to match the tone of the play with my comments, but I'll dim it down for the school environment.

If you were to hand this play out to a student to keep for free, I would take it off your hands and burn it. I've been frustrated with other works online (ex. Blood Whistle), but I was so frustrated with this that I wanted to throw the play on the ground in anger.

Why am I so frustrated? For one, it's not funny. It said that it was a comedy on the front page, yet it's really not a comedy. There were some stuff that made me chuckle, like the first scene and Don's response to that lady that he was having an affair with, but the rest of it was just a major let down. And I'm one of the people that should be laughing constantly at this play, but I'm not. Plus you can't make comedy fast paced, at least in my opinion. Dramas are alright for fast pacing, like in Dying City. If I don't see a fast paced comedy that I enjoy, then I'm assuming that there's not one out there.

For two, the main characters irked me. I know that the characters are supposed to be written by Korder, but there should be some common sense between Jack and Don (especially Jack). Jack is that douchebag who doesn't seem to give two shits about his family. He only cares about getting some v that isn't his wife's. Don's reason for cheating on Lisa did irk me, but I do know that he saved his ass because of it. But even so, Lisa shouldn't have said yes to marry him. I would've left right there if I were her. The only character that I did enjoy because he wasn't such a slob was Phil. Towards the end Jack asks him if he could borrow his apartment so that he can bang some foreign chick, and Phil turns it down. Good job Phil.

Three, there's either a flat or no plot between Phil and Jack. Don's plot was the only one I understood from this play. Wasn't that much—Dates a girl, has an affair, say sorry to the girl and marries her—but it was something. Jack's goal was only to screw; Phil's plot I have no idea.

If I had to give this play a ranking out of 10, I would give it a 3.5. It's not good, and I don't recommend it unless if you're on your death bed and you want something to replace the pain in your final moments.