Future Perfect
by Peter Griffith
 
Jimmy does everything wrong - he does not work at school,
he watches TV instead of doing his homework, and he ends
up unemployed.
But in his imagination it is all different: the TV programmes
he watches and the comics he reads show him what life
could be like - dominating the world, loved by beautiful
women, spotted on the street by a film-producer and given
the leading role in a Hollywood film.
 
If only life could be like that! Soon Jimmy is no longer
able to distinguish fantasy from reality. It is up to the
audience to decide whether Jimmy’s success is real,
or whether it is only a dream.
The play makes provocative use of irony to encourage
pupils to question the values on which they base their
lives.