Mr. Jokovice's New Radio Play

Mr. Jokovice was a retired play writer who’s love for the art had never allowed him to have any other passion such as a relationship. Now that his playwriting life was over, the only occupation Mr. Jokovice now lived for was to either listen, watch or read different adaptations of his timeless plays. He adored to criticize them, to the point of shaming the writers of the adaptations for getting such a magnificent piece of art so wrong. With every adaptation, this was always the case. 

Tonight Mr. Jokovice was excited to listen to another adaptation of one of his more famous plays AppleJax on the radio all by himself. In his cozy cottage he waited with diligence for ten minutes for it to become eight o’clock, when the play would start. The presented had already announced it and the intro music was playing. It had begun.

 

After listening to five minutes of AppleJax he realized it wasn’t as intricate as he had written it. It was simplified, and went faster than how he would have liked to hear it. Mr. Jokovice started to get irritated, it was all wrong just like every adaptation, people just didn’t understand the appreciation of atmosphere and allowing every scene to leave and impact and have an affect on the audience. What was playing on the radio simply covered the story of AppleJax rather than the impact and inner emotion of it.

After having his rant, Mr. Jokovice became tired and continued to listen to 

this taboo rendition of his art. After listening for a couple more minutes he found the story of AppleJax in this adaptation wasn’t at all serious, almost like it intended not to be. Certain jokes were read out of his seriously written lines. I sounded quite clever how it was able to create comedy from something the Mr. Jokovice intended to be serious. Mr. Jokovice started to moderately laugh at what he was listening to. He believed that this was a satire of his infamous play, and he actual, for one of the first times, started to enjoy it. Finally Mr. Jokovice guffawed the hour away at what has been made of his art. It was funny, made fun of what he had originally written, but he took no shame from it. Once it was over the radio present spoke out the credits including “based on the play by Ronnie Jokovice.”