Playbox Theatre Company wrote:

"The intertwining of the two Jessie's and the choice of alternative fates provides the climax. The acceptance of love and being able to love as being the way to break the cycle, provides the resolution. The primary dynamic comes from Jessie's battle with drugs and the helpless subconscious attraction of his father's fate. This is very strong motivation in the storyline and the particular structure allows it to resonate across the several layers - providing harmonics of meaning and connection."

"... Your characters are accessible and well defined and you have a good understanding of structure and sense of theatre ... a playwright (of) exciting qualities." - Malcolm Robertson - Playbox Theatre Company

Very encouraging words indeed. Thank you Playbox!

The setting for Stations is based on the interior of a modern day train. In the middle of the automatic doors a dividing transparent flexible scrim separates the two halves. One half appears to be based in the reality of now and never shifts from its train like interior, while the other half is quite surreal and is forever changing from the past, to the present, and to the future, giving it a modern day, "Christmas Carol" feel.

Through this divided reality, Big Jessie watches his life unfold through the different events and realities, but never being able to push through to the ever changing events on the other side.

It seems he is forced to watch on and relive all the traumatic events of his life once again. His Mother's passing. His Fathers inner struggle and eventual suicide. His plummet into drugs and the throwing away of his gifts in life... Then finally, after no longer being able to take the horror no more, he faces the same dilemma as his Father... Suicide.

At this point, Big Jessie lay dead on the floor, gun in his hand, succumb to all he hated. The end, depressing and grim... But in a twist, we find that neither side of this train was in actual fact reality, just fragments of memories and dreams of what may yet come.

As the real Jessie steps out of the darkness, we begin to understand that this was all just a dream. One based in reality nevertheless, and that right now he had a choice. Face his demons and all that he is, or become the reality of all he just dreamt... The choice would be forever his.