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David's Mother

Autism is a strange world. No one outside of it can really say what it's like. Those who have been there are incapable of saying anything. Bob Randall's script "David's Mother" gives us an up-close-and-personal view of an autistic teen-ager, David Goodman, who lives in a small, cluttered New York City apartment with his mother, Sally. While this may come across as another Lifetime special with yet again another story of a mother dealing with her child’s handicaps, this script isn’t really so much an issue play but more of a character study. As the title indicates, Randall's focus is more on Sally and the effects that a lifetime of caring for David have had upon her than David himself.

One of the key things about "David's Mother" is that it isn’t plot driven but rather character-driven. It focuses around its characters and let those characters take charge of where the story goes. Through the use of touching scenes between Sally and David, and sisterly banter between Sally and Bea, we begin to better understand Sally and her character. We also see, in flashbacks, how Sally's obsessive connection to David drives away her husband and daughter. Simmering underneath is the question - first implied, later stated - of whether Sall

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Approximate Word count = 880
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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