My generation ...
… are at odds with marriage and the once honoured tradition of monogamy; of looking to settle down and working at relationships to keep them long lasting and fulfilled. Our generation has issues with believing in the fulfilment of a marriage – for there to be only one true love for us all. We are at the forefront of the Internet age; we embraced the opportunities and endless possibilities of the Internet and the dawn of mobile phones, which became Smart Phones, the piece of tech that people are taking to bed with them… There is a restlessness to this generation, a selfishness, a vain element that has led to the growth of Social Media platforms that present a cosmetic, shallow version of ourselves / our life to friends, friends of friends, followers … Strangers.
Jamie Adams: Writer/Director
Fortunately,
for most of my generation we can remember that there was a time when sixty six percent of marriages didn’t end in divorce; that your grandparents and most parents would stick together in sickness and health, for richer or poorer …
Jamie Adams: Writer/Director
A Sense of
Entitlement ...
Oliver has a part time “hobby” job as a local Nightclub and Function DJ, and Gillian continues to struggle to get somewhere with her writing as an emerging regional playwright – a world full of promises and schemes and development funds but rather little work, or actual productions. They are both floating through their life, resentment has grown – they are at breaking point. Sometimes it’s easy to get distracted, to take someone/ something for granted, the idea that you have to work at your relationship, especially one that is thirteen years old, including seven years of marriage – sometimes this sense of entitlement and restlessness and a more enhanced sense of needing to deny death, to act to keep the denial of death at bay takes hold, we make bad choices which leads to heartache and relationship breakdown.