Too Much Punch For Judy :: Drama

in like manner Much Punch For JudyIntroductionDuring the past few drama lessons weve been studying a actually lifetragic play called Too Much Punch For Judy. It is a play about twosisters (Judy & Jo) who decide to go for a drink one day. They controltwo guys who buy them drinks. When they are ready to go, Judy suggeststo Jo that she should drive home as she has had less to drink than her(however she is still over the legal limit). After some opinionJudy agrees and throws Judy the car keys. As they drive back Jo pleadsto Judy to slow down. However, Judy suddenly loses control of the carand crashes. Judy survives the crash, her sister Jo who is in thepassenger seat dies. A man who has hear the crash from his house runsdown to the scene, he rings the police. The police arrive and call fortwo ambulances. When two ambulances arrive Jo and Judy are taken awayseparately. At this stage, Judy is unaware that Jo is dead. At thehospital Judy consistently asks to see her sister, until the po licemanfinally tells her that her sister is dead.After reading the play, I immediately tangle angry with Judy. I feltsorry for Jo and her family and perhaps almost for Judy. As the playwas a true story the moral of the play dont drink and drive struckme harder. The moral unimpeachably gets across to me, and made me awareof the effects of drinking and driving. I thought the play was a goodway of getting that point across. It gave young people, worry my groupand I, a chance to be put in that situation and to experience thefeelings and emotions of an actual person in that predicament.Depending on how we deal with this we are suitable to make a choicewhether it is the right or wrong thing to do. In this case, during ascene that I played Judy crashing and killing her sister, I feltscared at the consequences and extremely guilty. I would not like feellike that at any time. I have the power to control that, so that iswhy thanks to the play, I would not put my self in the same situation as Judy and feel it is the wrong choice to make.Response========Too much Punch For Judy allowed us to look into the effects ofdrinking and driving. It is a tragic piece of drama, however there aremany scenes which exaggerated and comical, resulting in completely theopposite feelings to the inevitable tragedy of the play.