Tracey's Dream

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© 2006 William McMillan While Tracey’s Dream will have captivating appeal to the youth of today, it will also be received enthusiastically by parents, teachers, police and community leaders.  The story provides educational and social benefits as well as exciting family entertainment for young and old alike.  It offers sufficient substance on the subject of bullying to form the foundation for classroom analysis and discussion.  On this basis alone its potential appeal and social value could be very, very significant.

SYNOPSIS

Tracey, a senior high school student, is part of a team preparing a school project on “Bullying”.  Interwoven into the story is an ongoing series of bullying incidents, on the school bus, in the school hallways, in the schoolyard, and in the city streets.  Headline bullying assaults lead to a police raid on the high school and the arrest of several students.

A parallel drama unfolds in the form of Tracey’s ongoing, but intermittent dream of a fantasy planet threatened by the hostile crew of a foreign spaceship.  Will it be necessary to resort to violence in order to maintain security?  What alternative solution would be practical and productive?  Can peaceful conflict without hostility be successful?  Excitement peaks when suddenly an Asteroid threatens to destroy the planet, and the hostile crew is confronted with the decision of putting their own lives in harms way, in order to save their new found friends.  Intertwined in the plot is a love story between a member of the crew, and a young girl on the planet.  The script includes four original songs.

RELEVANCE

Today, bullying is a very significant problem in virtually every school in every country.  “Tracey’s Dream” targets high school students, and tackles bullying, not from the standpoint of catching and punishing, but rather from the prospective of helping to change aggressive behavior.

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