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Distracted Play Summary
Distracted is the second theatre that I had a great opportunity to watch. I also have the good time to remember any scene and the actor performances. The play represented the story of one family that takes care of the son who has ADHD. The ADHD is the specific condition that children are inattention, hyperactivity, and get really difficulty to control their emotions. This condition can easily be found in the children four to seventeenth years of age (Information from Centers of Disease Control& Prevention). The parents try to do whatever to help their son get better from ADHD, and generally become the major story of the show. Overall, I really love it and would recommend CU’s Theatre production of Distracted to other people because Distracted has very strong compositions of scenery, the use of video, acting, and …show more content…
The actors told audiences the story of parents and the son. The father and mother tried to be good parents for their son. They knew the love of parents would be the only way to help their son get better from ADHD. The show presented two sides of perspectives, parents and children. The situation of ADHD in children, in which many families are encountering with, is common. Children will be anxious any situation and get difficulty to control emotions and attention. ADHD condition can be found with the majority of children. For children perspective, if you diagnose yourself having ADHD condition, you don’t need to negatively think forward for your situation. There are many people to support you. On the other hand, if there is one member in your family get ADHD, parents are supposed to do normally for him/her, but should really pay attention and give love to him/her to help children know that parents always support. Distracted is a great theatre to exemplify the love of family and how to come up with unprecedented

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