“Where there is Love there is Life”- Mahatma Gandhi. Love is an essence of life and allows one to live life fully. The play “Pronoun” by Evan Placey is a love story about understanding the experiences of a transgender, with the help of main character Dean, Placey gives a message that unconditional love is the deepest desire that everyone has and is one of the basic necessity for a healthy life. Before one can fully appreciate Placey’s play “Pronoun” one should take a look into its characters, script and title.
Placey’s script is executed beautifully by the Community College of Aurora Theatre Department. Dana Bergren’s portrayal of the play’s main character Dean, (a teenager Isabella who is in the process of transitioning from female …show more content…
The story is about Josh and Isabella, childhood sweethearts, who were planning to spend some time together after their high school until Isabella realizes her inner self and finds out herself more comfortable to be a boy. The plot of the play moves around Isabella’s transition to Dean, his troubled love story with Josh, and his failing relationship with his sister and parents and his struggle to make his friends and family realize and acknowledge him for who he is. With the ghost of James Dean acting as god mother, Dean finds strength to face the challenges during his transition and mend his relationships as …show more content…
Placey beautifully sheds light into the challenges faced by Dean’s family as well. Through the monologues of Dean’s Mom and Dad, Placey shows that transition is difficult not only to Dean but to his family as well. The dialogues for Mom and Dad is beautifully written and executed to show that it’s not that they don’t love Dean, but it’s difficult for them to get out of their traditional thought process and accept Dean for who he is. The dialogue were Mom and Dad mourn for Isabella is the summary of how they feel. It cannot be denied that after the transition, they only have Dean and Isabella is no more. Arrival of Dean, their son, cannot surpass their feelings for their loss of Isabella, their daughter. The play shows that to the parents, it’s just like loosing a child, but the child is not dead or missing, the child is simply gone. Placey also shows a little on society and its
Placey’s script is executed beautifully by the Community College of Aurora Theatre Department. Dana Bergren’s portrayal of the play’s main character Dean, (a teenager Isabella who is in the process of transitioning from female …show more content…
The story is about Josh and Isabella, childhood sweethearts, who were planning to spend some time together after their high school until Isabella realizes her inner self and finds out herself more comfortable to be a boy. The plot of the play moves around Isabella’s transition to Dean, his troubled love story with Josh, and his failing relationship with his sister and parents and his struggle to make his friends and family realize and acknowledge him for who he is. With the ghost of James Dean acting as god mother, Dean finds strength to face the challenges during his transition and mend his relationships as …show more content…
Placey beautifully sheds light into the challenges faced by Dean’s family as well. Through the monologues of Dean’s Mom and Dad, Placey shows that transition is difficult not only to Dean but to his family as well. The dialogues for Mom and Dad is beautifully written and executed to show that it’s not that they don’t love Dean, but it’s difficult for them to get out of their traditional thought process and accept Dean for who he is. The dialogue were Mom and Dad mourn for Isabella is the summary of how they feel. It cannot be denied that after the transition, they only have Dean and Isabella is no more. Arrival of Dean, their son, cannot surpass their feelings for their loss of Isabella, their daughter. The play shows that to the parents, it’s just like loosing a child, but the child is not dead or missing, the child is simply gone. Placey also shows a little on society and its