The Director’s Vision

Boom’s Return is a tragicomedy that chronicles the sonless father, Edmund Boom, and the fatherless son, Stephen Murphy.  As they begin their day it becomes imminently clear that they are destined to meet.   The story explores our need to live a kinder existence – to each other and to the world we occupy.

WHY THIS STORY

I wrote this story over 25 years ago.  Kind living and its rewards is a philosophy I believe in – it is akin to karma.  Live well and good things will follow.  Live selfishly and you will reap what you sow.

That is not to say I live kindly always – I struggle like everyone else to maintain a steady keel.   It is near impossible to do so in our modern over stimulated society with all the forces causing you to react.  But it is a philosophy, I believe, in a civilization gone amuck, many people know in their minds-eye is desperately needed.

This story takes place in St. John’s, NL – today.   I am trying to emulate the way people see us when they visit.   We are different.  Some say funny.  We are cute and has the mainlander Richard Bridgeport III points out, ‘Everyone wants to master the cuteness’.

Edmund Boom, 57, is the embodiment of this.  Flawed and fumbling at times he does not hold a hateful bone in his body.  It is this kind living that will lead him back to a life of happiness.   And the maturity of his wife, Mercedes Boom, 44, who herself realizes the importance of self-love. 

Stephen Murphy, 21, on the other hand, is a lost soul.  He cannot fathom a future that holds any brightness.  It has consumed his thoughts and vanquished any kindness and love he has for himself.  The ultimate self-betrayal. 

The coming together of the ‘father and son’ will afford Boom the opportunity to rediscover his purpose in life.  It is this purpose that vanished when his son died six years ago.  The irony is, it is Stephen that offers the peripheral olive branch to Boom and allows Boom the space to move forward.   It is Stephens final act before he takes the final betrayal to life itself.   One that cements our story in the reality of our times.

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