First Person Shooter’ – Video Games and School shootings, Pulse Beat Theater – exciting fareBuzzin' Lee Hartgravebyline‚ May. 11‚ 2007The Debate in this play and around the nation is: Does Violent Video Games contribute to the recent School Shootings? If you were to ask me, I would say yes. I personally think that there is also too much gratuitous violence in the Movies. But, you have to pay to get into a movie – whereas Video Games you watch at home – over and over again. This provocative, moving and well-acted drama brings to forth many issues. It all begins in a small start-up video game company, where the young C.E.O has come up with a very violent game. The genius is only in his twenties. The game has put the company on the Video game fast track. The media frenzy has begun. Then a shock comes along. A school shooting has happened that closely resembles the “Video Game”. Accusations fly and Attorneys swarm around the victims and the Video Company, which was started by a tight knit group of friends. As the company looks like it is headed for huge lawsuits, the friendships begin to fall apart. Some of the dialogue is jolting, but so real: “Pound your chests and wave your dicks at each other,” says a female co-worker… referring to a verbal battle at the company. Yeah, there is some spicy dialogue on that stage. |