Social Work Hard Play Analysis

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REPORTING SOCIAL WORKER | Jacob Glynn | SUBJECT DETAILS | Name: Roy Law Smith Date Of Birth: Occupation:Marital Status: | ASSESSMENT DETAILS | | BACKGROUND | Roy Law smith grew up in orphanages and with foster parents, but has constructed a frictional childhood of joy and high culture, he also swings wildly between moods of excitement and depression. Roy is passionate but he is blind and unrealistic dreams of greatness alienates him from others. | BEHAVIOUR OBSERVATIONS | | RECOMMENDATIONS | | NOTES It’s Roy’s idea to put on the production of Cosi Fan Tutte. The opera is important to him, he says, because it would summon up a “world that was as far removed from this depressing asylum as possible. A world that was like my childhood: tea parties, dances in our ballroom, circus performers coming to perform just for me.” But none of this is actually true. As Cherry reveals to Lewis towards the end of the play: “He spent most of his early life in orphanages and being farmed out to foster parents who, realizing what a nut case they had on their hands, put him back, quick smart.” Roy is delusional – but the delusions are a way of coping, of making sense of things: “Without this opera having been composed, there would be a clanging, banging, a bedlam all around us.” He is constantly critical of Lewis, belittling him as a director (“every day after rehearsals he came and complained to me about your direction,” says Justin), deriding the relationship between him and…show more content…
Grew up in orphanages and with foster parents, but has constructed a fictional childhood of joy and high culture. Swings wildly between moods of excitement and depression. Roy is passionate but his blind and unrealistic dreams of greatness alienate him from the others.
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