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A Clockwork Orange The play A Clockwork Orange, written in 1962 by Anthony Burgess, is a very intriguing story about social conflicts and comic tragedy. In 1971, Stanley Kubrick directed and produced the first film adaptation of the play. The play is an emotional journey through social conflicts and tragedy. Burgess’s story takes you through the life of a troubled fifteen-year-old boy named Alex. We watch Alex experience a transformation from a violent, angry, and confused adolescent, to a wise, depressed man. During his younger years, Alex dealt with many immature emotions that lead him to do outrageous acts. Alex, is a leader of a gang who constantly steals, rapes and assaults people. During one of Alex’s violent and harmful acts, his friends, or “droogs” as he refers to them, turn on him and he is sent to jail for raping and accidentally killing a young women. Through his sentence in jail, Alex is given the opportunity to participate in a new rehabilitating program called the Ludovico’s technique.