Suggest a play for a high school production in the near future...

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:20pm

Please suggest any plays highly suitable for production by a high school group of students. Plays-not musicals.

Give your best thoughts and selections...

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:21pm

Is BUSH IS BAD a play or a musical?

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:21pm

The crucibles.

I loved reading it at least

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:21pm

How much will I get paid for doing your job?

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:21pm

a wonderful musical

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:22pm

The same amount he gets paid...nothing

[blueroses]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:24pm

Our Town.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:24pm

Do anything by Arthur Miller, Tony Kushner, Thornton Wilder. Or maybe a french author? How about Camus, Sartre, Giraudoux...?

Edit: or do some German plays: Brecht, Schiller, Goethe... Updated On: 9/21/06 at 03:24 PM

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:31pm

"You Can't Take It With You" seems to be a favorite among High Schools. G Rated - lots of big parts for guys and gals.

"Feifers People" is also good.

"Twelfth Night"

[Pippin]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:33pm

Harvey is a pretty good play for a high school. it values small town morality and has no offensive humour at all.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:39pm

Last year we did Ten Little Indians.

[peggyandvelma]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:41pm

I was in a production of The Women. Granted it's an all female cast, and there are some tongue-in-cheek sexual references, but it's a fantastic ensemble piece. I loved it!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 3:54pm

Kushner for high schools? No thanks....

All the classics are good bets. Almost everything by Wilder.

"You Can't Take it With You," "Our Town," etc.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 4:00pm

*lol* Munky, take a chance, what's wrong with Kushner??

No need to stick to the tamest of the tame, is there?

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 4:04pm

It has nothing to do with being tame - I'm all for pushing the envelope.

But if they were to do something like ANGELS IN AMERICA at a high school, much of the integrity of the original material would inevitably be compromised. Significant cuts would have to be made.

For colleges, of course- yes.

For high schools? Come on. It's just not do-able.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 4:14pm

Okay, you just convinced me

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 4:41pm

OUR TOWN is such a horribly rotten boring play.
Beautifully written, but boring.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 4:43pm

Well, in a way you're right that Our Town is very much impressive by the way it's written.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 4:48pm

What about one of the Del Shores plays?
RUMORS is great.
and what about Neil Labute?

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 5:58pm

Thanks for all the great suggestions, and keep going.

We have done several of the plays mentioned including Harvey, You Can't Take it With You, and others.

Keep suggesting.

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:47pm

We also did Rumors.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions. Any others, keep going.

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:49pm

Last year my high school did Arsenic and Old Lace.

This year we're doing Noises Off.

[Chanticleer148]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:56pm

We did Arsenic, and Noises Off is great suggestion!

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:58pm

I don't find OUT TOWN boring at all. I find it fascinating. Good productions of it are never boring.

What about "Wait Until Dark" or "Pygmalion"?

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 9/21/06 at 9:59pm

We're doing The Shadow Box, this year.

I would not reccomend it for high schoolers.

even though we're doing it...

GAH hypocrites!