Cagebirds
by David Campton
The setting is a locked
room and a cage, where six women and captive
birds reside. The women spend their time
in their self-absorptions and in placating
their caretaker mistress. Then an outsider
enters the group. She talks of breaking
out of the room to become free. Her talk
of liberation disturbs the others, who wanting
to hold on to the safety and security of
their cage, resist her attempts.
(from http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/catalogdetail.cfm?listcode=C44)
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Bang
Bang You're Dead
by William Mastrosimone
Bang Bang You're Dead explores violence
in today's high schools. An important
play in difficult times, it looks at the
causes and results of school violence
that are ignored until it is potentially
too late. What happens in the life and
mind of a kid that finally snaps and makes
the decision to end the lives of fellow
students and/or teachers? What brings
them to the point where that's the only
solution they see? What does it do to
everyone touched by the violence, and
is there anyway to stop it before it's
too late?
To learn more, please visit the Bang Bang
You're Dead website
http://www.classbrain.com/artteensb/publish/bang_bang_youre_dead.shtml
http://www.mavia.org/bangrecs.htm
http://www.mavia.org/newsletters/bang-bang.html
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Playwriting
101: the Rooftop Lesson
by Rich Orloff
Up on a roof, a jumper and a Good Samaritan
illustrate a professor's lecture on playwriting,
with a lesson way beyond the professor's
expectations. This play is an examination
of the art of playwriting. When the characters
from a student playwright's sample scene
come to life, the results are instructive...and
disastrous!
(from http://www.its.caltech.edu/~oat/)
On a rooftop, a jumper and a Good Samaritan
illustrate a pompous professor's lecture
on playwriting, until the lesson goes
out of control.
-Chosen Best of the 2002 Delaware Short
Play Festival
-WINNER of the 2002 Five and Dime Playwriting
Competition
-Published in Take Ten II: New Ten-Minute
Plays
-"Short but hilarious" BackStage
(from http://www.richorloff.com/sketchesframe2.html)
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