In my mind, PTA makes performance pieces. He likes to create characters and put them in all kinds of situations to see how they'd react. A consistent theme is people who are lonely and have some sort of unhealthy attachment to something other than another person. He makes love stories but the other person is replaced with something more philosophical. I like seeing the people being put through the ringer, being put in horrible situations and seeing how they have to adapt to get out of it.