Thom Pain

The opening of the play Thom Pain starts off as a one man standing show, its him talking to the audience . the visuals of smoking and lighting the match show how its almost like stand up. In the opening he talks about himself as a introduction then goes on to tell a story but takes a step back to ask the audience " Do I even have to be here to tell a story?".The play started off with an attention grabber then went onto the story of a boy which you could relate to the reader. Later on in the play it talks about a dog and not long after the dog died a brutal death. Also what I noticed int he play was the constant break that would go back to the audience and the pauses the reader had to look back at the audience waiting for a response.