Margery Forde orientates the text to suit teenage readers in her play X-Stacy, through the use of language, storyline, and characters. The play X-Stacy is about a 17 year old girl who follows in her brothers footsteps by initiating herself in the world of rave/dance parties. With time, Stacy’s drug use goes out of control, and eventually she overdoses on illicit drugs and alcohol. The play is based around Stacy’s death, and shows the devastating consequences that Stacy’s friends and family having to go through and the effects of her death from a teenage drug related death. The play shows that the death of someone can lead to misdirected moralities, attitude alterations and manipulation between one another.
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The different characters actions and words are influenced by their commitment to either the church or rave lifestyle. The language used, how characters spend their time, and where they feel comfortable, affects the ways in which characters relate to one another. The different personalities and ways of life between characters, resulted in a lot of personality clashes, making the play more interesting. For example, when Paul the Priest brings up Stacy’s death to Ben and tells him to consider finding closure within the church, Ben suggests to Paul “[he] should come check out a rave sometime” as “what [he has] found there [he] never found in a church.” Ben’s personality and way of life is more than somewhat different to Pauls; as to him he finds closure and feels safe through the sound of music and atmosphere of raves. Another example is when Anne has a closed mind about raves, and thinks people only go to them to take drugs and drink. When talking to Zoe about raves, she was at first in disbelief that “[Zoe was] telling [her that she doesn’t] take drugs,” and questioned her on “why [does she] go.” Zoe replied “are you kidding? The music, man! The music’s fully excellent, and that’s what it’s all about.” The characters opinions on raves in this extract is evidentially very different, as all Anne has known and personally experienced with raves is the change in both of her children’s