Published: April 2001, Providence, RI

Famed Brown alum John Krasinski ’01 wrote “Contents Under Pressure” for his senior honors thesis in the Theatre Arts and Performance Studies department. The two-act play is set in Ray’s Auto and follows the increasingly intense exchange between Jack Taylor, a young struggling son who has returned to town after his father’s death, and Ed O’Neil, a passerby. The suspenseful script is a quick and riveting 60 pages.