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The Keen Collection: Volume 8
The Keen Collection: Volume 8
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Author: Kit Yan and Melissa Li, Chisa Hutchinson, and Matthew Stephen Smith Publisher: Samuel French (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 97 Pub. Date: 2020 ISBN-10: 0573708746 ISBN-13: 9780573708749
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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 8 contains three short
plays written by Kit Yan and
Melissa Li, Chisa Hutchinson, and Matthew
Stephen Smith, which premiered at
Off-Broadway's Theatre Row as part of 2020 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.
Cancelled by Kit Yan
and
Melissa Li
A scandal breaks in a progressive high
school when Joey, the popular lesbian President of the GSA,
accidentally sends an offensive tweet directed at Evan, a trans
classmate. Tensions rise when their friends scramble to take sides,
leaving Joey and Evan caught in the center of the drama. (Cast: 4
female, 3 male, 3 any gender).
We🖤Mr.
Marsden by Chisa
Hutchinson
There's an
unlikely gathering of high school girls in Nicole Shepherd's
basement. No, it's not a study session, and it's definitely not a
party. It's a meeting during which Nicole reveals her explosive
discovery – that they're all being sexually molested by their math
teacher – and lays out a plan for vengeance. (Cast: 8
female, 1 male).
A Sudden Rush by Matthew Stephen Smith
At
a school perched on the edge of a dangerous cliff, a new student sets
off an unexpected chain of events when he proclaims his love to an
unnamed classmate during a raucous and stormy lunch. Relationships
are tested, secrets are exposed, and a handful of students find
themselves facing a whole new realm of feeling and possibility.
(Cast: 7 female, 3 male, 1 non-binary).
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