A rebel without a clue.

A Critique of the Entire Play The play is an intriguing and highly personal work that successfully weaves together several disparate elements:  personal reflection, a travelogue, and a meta-theatrical element in the form of a webinar.  The overall structure, moving from a moment of solitary peace to a public, chaotic space and then back to a state of quiet understanding, is effective. The play's strength lies in its ability to find profound meaning in the mundane.  The "quiet sufficiency of the moment" at dawn, the "ghosts" of Wetherby, and the "unfixed" nature of the narrator's self all set a philosophical tone.  This foundation makes the absurdism of the webinar feel not like a gimmick, but like a natural extension of the narrator's mind. Jenkins and his biscuit metaphors are the true highlight of the work.  The notion that "markets and biscuits obey the same physics: structure, soak, collapse" is both clever and deeply insightful. ...

The familiar rumble of the bus on Boar Lane. It's Tuesday morning in Leeds, and I'm waiting for the X98, the very same bus that once felt like a cage. Today, I'm heading out, but back in 2014, I was on my way to Manchester airport, desperate to leave it all behind. I’ve just found the journal entries from that time, buried deep in my digital memory. They are a painful, raw record of a man consumed by a "slow illness called living death." I sat on that bus then, seeing the world as a vacuum, filled with "ghouls" and the "dawn of the dead." I felt trapped, watching people "limping from one death to another, never awaking." My anger was an active, breathing thing, directed at a society I felt was entirely broken. A New Beat, a New Name My name at the time was simply djsherburn72, a collection of letters and numbers. But in my head, I had already become futurefjp. The name was a direct reference to a New Beat track by Franck De Wolf. Whil...