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Keen Teens: Volume 4
Keen Teens: Volume 4
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Author: Nick Gandiello, Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, Max Vernon, and Jason Kim Publisher: Samuel French Format: Softcover # of Pages: 94 Pub. Date: 2017 ISBN-10: 0573706271 ISBN-13: 9780573706271
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About the Plays:
Some great pieces for performance or scene work.
The annual Keen Teens Festival of New
Work (commonly referred to as Keen Teens) is a unique and free
educational theatre program, run by the Drama Desk and Obie
Award-winning Keen Company. Keen Teens was formed in 2007 to improve
the quality of plays written for high school students by
commissioning scripts from highly regarded professional writers.
Playwrights write material specifically for teenagers, in plays that
must be 30 minutes long, have a cast size of 10 or more, and have an
ensemble structure. Keen Teens then casts high school students from
across the New York metropolitan area to perform in the World
Premiere productions of these plays at an Off-Broadway setting.
Keen Teens: Volume 4 contains three short plays
written by Nick Gandiello, Hannah Bos,
Paul Thureen, Max Vernon, and Jason Kim, which premiered at
Off-Broadway's Theatre Row as part of 2016 Keen Teens Festival
of New Work. Another highlight of
Keen Teens is that the plays are published, with the student's names
listed, which helps build the canon of work for high school students.
To
date, more than 200 performances of Keen Teen plays have been
produced all over the world, from Australia to Singapore.
How The Moon Would Talk by Nick Gandiello
No
one quite knows how to deal with death, particularly high school
students. Ally has just lost her sister to cancer, and her boyfriend
Dwayne is trying to be as committed to her as possible. Set on a Harlem rooftop, a group of friends discuss what it means to grieve
when no one else has the answers for you. (Cast: 6 female, 3 male).
Landlines by
Hannah Bos and Paul
Thureen
Two announcers
want you to make a pledge for their telethon today. They don't have
mugs, but they have mice. An Old Woman drinks coffee from a bowl, a
Teenage Girl calls her dead grandparents, and the kid's show
characters Beep and Bop aren't actually real. A bonkers TV telethon
goes in and out of the dark and asks existential questions of
everyone no matter what side of the phone they're on. (Cast: 9 any
gender).
30 Million with music and lyrics by Max Vernon
and book by
Jason Kim
Dee Dee wants nothing more than to be a
star, so when her friend Gordon insists that she posts a video of her
new song and it goes viral Dee Dee thinks her life is made. Her
fellow classmates aren't as receptive to her newfound fame and
quickly take to the internet to trash her and her song. Dee Dee's
quick rise and fall may have lasted a short while on the Internet,
but the effects on a teen last much longer. (Cast: 5 female, 5 male).
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Boo Killebrew, A. Rey Pamatmat, and Eleanor Burgess
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Lauren Yee, Jen Silverman, Max Posner
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Kristoffer Diaz, Jonathan Caren, and Halley Feiffer
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Jonathan Caren, Anna Moench, Madeleine George
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