Bang You Re Dead: Play Analysis

Freshman year I auditioned for my school's traveling drama group, and made the cast for a few plays. One of these plays is called “Bang Bang You’re Dead”, and is about Josh- a kid with undiagnosed schizophrenia that combined with his parents inattention leads to him shooting up his school, killing 5 people. I’ve now participated in this play for three years and hopefully a fourth, should I get in, and through the years I’ve matured and gotten more understanding of topics such as school violence and mental illness. My first year I mostly just watched, watched the upperclassmen talk, watched their scenes and listened to stories about their classes and people I didn't know. I rarely talked and felt nervous when I did. It wasn't that the upperclassmen