Days of Wine and Roses by J.P. Miller

So, I just finished the play Days of Wine and Roses by J.P. Miller and found it to be good and thought that it also did have a good message. This play was also a movie and it followed one guys story of being an alcoholic and his trip to recovery. He met a girl that shared his like of alcohol and they hit it off almost immediately. They eventually got married and they ended up trying to go into recovery together. They go through their ups and downs and they have their times when they feel the need for alcohol and other times when they feel they have done good keeping their desire for alcohol under control. They start to get distant though when Joe begins being able to fully not consume alcohol while Kirsten is struggling very much and continues to get dangerously drunk to the point of putting their daughter in danger. Joe decides to tell Kirsten that she can come back as long as she stops using alcohol, but she says that she can't promise that, and that she does not think she can stop, so Joe tells her that they can't get back together so the play ends with Kirsten and Joe seperating for who knows how long.

This play is all about how much drinking alcohol and an addiction like that can ruin lives. Their relationship was based on alcohol and the addiction and because of this it slowly deteriorated their relationship until they could not be together anymore. Not only was their relationship begun on basis of alcohol but also ended because of alcohol. It shows both sides of alcoholism also. The promising recovered alcoholic who is starting to make a new life for himself and the alcoholic who has ruined her life and will not be able to have her life back as long as she remains an alcoholic. The play was able to portray its message of the dangers of alcohol to both body and relationships very well and I would recommend this play to anybody else.

This play is also the one that Hannah and I will be doing our scene from. We had to do a little bit of cutting but we are going to do a scene where they are both desperate for alcohol and are needing it and then transition into a separate scene where they have been doing good with their recovery and have decided to celebrate with a drink. This scene will be different then anything I have done before and should be an interesting one.

And on a side note, I got into the film that I auditioned for last night and am very excited. It will be my first film and should be a great experience.