Sure, Your Play is Good

Our protagonist Anthony is the head of the theater department at a middle school, a space that becomes a playground for all his dormant and denied ambitions of becoming a playwright. For the annual production, he sets up the students to perform a play purportedly by a famous German playwright who has very graciously offered it to the school, when in fact, there is no such playwright in existence, and the authorship belongs to no other than our desperately impatient protagonist himself. To further complicate matters, Anthony hires a filmmaker to document this entire endeavor.

From the word go, things begin to go downhill, and the film does a hilariously entertaining and engaging job of portraying it all for the viewer. The big tragedy of Anthony’s life could lie in the answer that is crucial to this whole foolhardy endeavor - does he even have the talent to be a writer to begin with? The answer could be in the negative, or swing the other way, and reaffirm his already shaky faith in his writing and talents.

At no point does the film overburden itself with the expression of all of these ideas, staying true to its amusing core all along. While our protagonist continues to deal with one hiccup after another, the viewer is always able to find the comedy in it, and it is in the achievement of this result that the film succeeds at being a complete, comprehensive whole.