Overall Impressions

When trying to describe this play to some of my friends not in our esteemed lit class they asked me to describe the plot in five words or less. Though difficult, I managed to get it done: Murdering little children. What happened? After the look of shock on their faces (which was both amusing and gratifying) I told them that they all have to run out to buy and read this play.

And I meant it. This is a fantastically interesting and quirky play, a Little Green Pig in and of itself. I enjoyed it thoroughly. It's easy to see that certain forms of censorship taken by our government are played out to dangerous extremes in this play as well as a serious look at the responsibility of authors in producing their work.

The responsibility issue comes up often in the 21st century with regard to video games. Every time a new GTA is released, senators and governmental figures clambor to have Rockstar Games offices closed. Although I see the arguement that enacting violent behavior may lead one to enact it in real life (a la Mikhail) I don't see much substantiation for it. However, I do see the author/programmer/artist/filmmaker etc. sharing some of the blame. I think they must also share that blame with the environment of the person acting it out. For the majority of responsibility for a what a person does, or believes, or acts upon, is the society and background of what they grew up with. The creative things we see may give us ideas, but it is up to us whether we act on it or not.