FYI SOS ASAP Themes

The play FYI SOS ASAP is a play about the struggles teenagers and young adults experience in their life and the effect these problems have on them for the rest of their life. The play provided very good examples to show the audience these struggles and the best way for anyone in those situations to deal with the problems. The play had three main themes that were discussed and these themes were bullying, sex and sexually transmitted diseases, and suicide, which were all demonstrated and explained to the audience in a way that people could understand and maybe even relate to. The play writers seemed to be very conscious of who their audience was, and they tailored to the audience by using actors and actresses of similar age, and similar situations that teenagers and young adults may have experienced or may one day experience.

The theme bullying was presented in many different ways throughout the play. In the

The actors and actresses went through many scenarios to show the audience the importance of being smart and safe when having sex. In one scene, a girl realized that she was pregnant with a guy’s baby who she had only known and dated for only a short period of time. The girl was afraid, felt she was too young to have a child, and struggled with what she should do. She confided in her friend, and her friend scolded her for being so careless. The pregnant girl regretted her decision and was then forced to make a tough choice that would affect her for the rest of her life. Another example was “The Wheel of STD’s”. This was a game show where several people spun a wheel to find out what type of STD they would be getting. Once they won the STD, the announcer describe what the disease was and how it would affect their life. Both of these examples showed the audience the importance of making smart, careful decisions, because just one mistake could effected one for the rest of his or her