Theater-On-The-Walk™ Dartmouth Yearbook

Theater-On-The-Walk™ Graduate Thesis

“Theater-On-The-Walk” is a spiritually-themed nonfictional memoir that catalogs the ongoing chronicles of my privileged male youth born as a childlike emperor on an illusionary quest to save the world from the destruction of my older brother, Christopher – “The Antagonist”.

Raised in the nested surroundings of unconditional love and pure imagination, the author “Bluebird” and self acclaimed “Protagonist”, grows up alongside his unruly brother who as “the black sheep of the family”, forces Bluebird to identify himself as “the good guy” – a burden of youth that compels him to harbor the world and all of humanity upon his weary shoulders.

A two-fold story of diverging narratives, Theater-On-The-Walk is a nostalgic voyage between reality and fantasy that goes on to describe the four chapters of Bluebird’s progressive adolescence into adulthood: “The Wonder Years”, “The Growing Years”, “The Lost Years”, and “The Greatest Adventure.”

Each chapter is divided into three sections separated by a “Theatrical Journal” scribed by Bluebird who, after being captured by “The Lord of Darkness”, logs the operatic story of his own dark phantom that haunts both the reader throughout the text as well as the unsuspecting citizens it encounters on the ivy league grounds of Dartmouth College as it endeavors to walk home during a lonesome stormy night.

Introducing each stage is a supporting “Side-Story Narrative” that overarches Bluebird’s descent away from humanity and into the fiery depths of hell – a dark story based from the fictional account of “The Wanderer” who along his eastern trek by foot, searches for his long lost brother as he struggles to contain his own inner demons from breaking free to terrorize the world and all of humanity.

Beset by persistent feelings of loneliness, heartbreak, and suicide, the Protagonist, who secretly longs for his brother’s companionship while at the same time fearing the prospect of becoming an adult, wages a rebellious ego-driven struggle to maintain the magic of his childhood by openly wearing an elaborate costume, defiantly crowned with a starburst-shaped mask, against the conservative eyes of public scrutiny in the small town of Hanover, New Hampshire.

Appropriately named “The Sun God” by students of Dartmouth College, Bluebird enters the mask into an outdoor paradise of childhood fantasy where the world of Hanover is hand-played like a marionette to his own whimsical desires - as though the entire town itself were his own personal playground to explore, experience, and conquer.

All the while… growing within The Sun God’s furnace of fire is the Tyrant Ego who offers Bluebird the temptation of becoming a true living God – a crossroad that Bluebird must eventually decide - between his own humanity or the way of the mask.