Body image, bullying, and suicide are only a few of the teen-centred issues explored in this category.
Anonymous is a story of every teenager: trying to fit in, trying to belong, trying to fall in love. It's hard to be an individual when you're trying to survive.
R is the only letter in a sea of numbers. Potential sits in a chair. These two one acts - Art of Rejection and Chaired can be performed separately or together.
Will they establish civility or fall apart?
Will they establish civility or fall apart?
One Girl. One Mirror. Against the world.
In this one-act middle school vignette play, characters come face-to-face with the fact that there are other people in their boat. Some are different. Some only seem different.
Madeline has body issues. So much so that her different body parts are coming to life and talking back. But Madeline is tired of feeling bad about her body.
Madeline has body issues. So much so that different body parts are coming to life and talking back. A shorter version of this body image play.
A middle school vignette play about the boxes we find ourselves in.
We can all relate to feeling small in a big world. The characters in A Box of Puppies share their insecurities, their frailties and how they cope.
Jake finds a suicide note in his mailbox. Is it real? Is it a joke? Jake is determined to find out but instead learns a secret he didn't want to know.
Hester90 is publicly shamed and shunned for a racial slur against another student.
A touching ensemble piece where sacrifice is as simple as a pair of wings.
The Bleep Bleep Girls know how teenagers are supposed to behave and how to deal with those who don't. An absurd look at censorship and independent thought.
This vignette play asks students to look at the concept of what it means to be “good” and “bad.”
A collection of plays that examine the impact of cancer as seen through the eyes of teenagers. Can be performed as a full length or one acts.
A group of teenagers grapple with unanswered questions as they try to understand why someone who has it all would kill themselves. Powerful monologues.
A competition-length version of Chicken. Road. by Lindsay Price
The question everyone’s asking is “Am I walking out alive today?”
A group of students want to regain normalcy and recoup what they’ve lost as seniors: prom, school play, graduation. But nothing is normal.