If there are hundreds of gore fest scripts being written by college students on the level of “Richard McBeef”, then we may as well resign ourselves to picking the vegetables Americans don’t want to pick.
Unfortunately, I read both of them. That was one sick individual. Obsessed with killing and homosexuality. If he had graduated, he probably would have ended up as a screenwriter in LA LA Land.
I also got the impression that these plays were written by a person who was not in control of the narrative. Everything was reactionary. Almost as if he had an underlying programming that forced a reactionary response to just about every interaction.
There are a lot of students out there who want to be the next Quentin Tarantino, and there are plenty of communications professors willing to push them in that direction. This kid's writings were no more shocking than a typical Tarantino script. The difference is pretty much in the the writer's having no depth of understanding as to what drives the characters to violence.
The line that separates "art" from "fart" is very, very thin these days.