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By Allel Kheroufi
This is actually a play, in four parts, and it’s for children.
I enjoyed reading this play- picturing it done by young children, about the little duck Homer who just wants to fly to the sun.
~I was provided with a free review copy of this play.~
I have to admit, it was a bit redundant. It seemed like, especially in act II, when the elements were attacking Homer, that it was all just the same thing over and over.
And while I’m being critical, I didn’t feel like the character of Homer was developed very well… I suppose the actor and director could work on that, but they’d have to be very imaginative, because there just isn’t much to work with.
However, on the positive side, I would love to see this play done. I think the children who were in it, would have a blast, and I think it would be a very cute play!
Most of the characters are pretty mean to Homer, which always seems to bother me a bit in stories…. but there are a few who develop sympathy for him. And there are also a few young birds who follow Homer’s example and want to be like him, and achieve great things like he does.
I will admit, I felt like the author tried a little too hard to press into my mind the fact that children can do whatever they set their minds to. Maybe I’m a grump, but at times I felt like the mother goose and mother hen who said that Homer needed to be stopped. That he was filling their children’s heads with nonsensical dreams. (yeah, I must be a grump.)
Cute play. I’d love to see it done. But, I wouldn’t recommend it for reading. Sorry folks. It just wasn’t that well written.
IWant to Fly by AllelKheroufi
ISBN:978-1-4327-8007-4
Publisher:Outskirts Press
Dateof publish: March 2012
Pages:201
S.R.P.:$12.95
