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The Keen Collection: Volume 7
The Keen Collection: Volume 7
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Publisher: Samuel French (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 94 Pub. Date: 2020 ISBN-10: 0573708266 ISBN-13: 9780573708268
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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.
The Keen Collection: Volume 7 contains three short
plays written by C.A. Johnson, Nsangou Njikam, and Kate
Cortesi, which premiered at
Off-Broadway's Theatre Row as part of 2019 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.
Foreign Bodies by C.A. Johnson
Alphonse
the bartender will always listen to your sob story as he pours you a
drink. And everyone in his bar seems to have one. Mallory struggles
with her all-consuming love for Trish. Everyone seems to be
struggling with something. Until they aren't. All is not as it seems
at this neighbourhood watering hole. (Cast: 5 female, 5 male).
The Rebellious Rhymes of J Nice by
Nsangou Njikam
The
whole school gathers to cheer on the epic rap battle between the
challenger, J Nice, and the champion, Makeda. Both are MCs with mad
skills rhyming for the Championship of the South Bronx. "There
aren't really any rules but just don't take sh*t too far."
(Cast: 8 female).
Citizens United by Kate Cortesi
A
comedy about the end of American democracy. Well, not the end, but a
pretty drastic assault that came from within by five people who can't
be voted out, five men who will keep that job till they quit or die.
Though granted, one of them is already dead. (Cast: 1 female, 16 any
gender, flexible ensemble).
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