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Drama |
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Full-length, 100-120 minutes
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4 females, 1 male |
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Suggested set with desks and chairs.
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Mild adult language |
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| Well-educated, middle-class couple James and Rachel have moved back to America from Uganda with their traumatized adopted son in hopes of providing him with a better life. Instead, Daniel is threatened with expulsion from school for his violent behavior. As his behavior becomes increasingly dangerous, Daniel's rocky progress is revealed through the eyes of the adults who are responsible for him -- his levelheaded principal, his apprehensive teacher, and his sympathetic counselor -- and James and Rachel are forced to grapple with the backlash of their choices. |
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| "McKee dispassionately observes how each of these adult authority figures fails to help Daniel emerge from his private hell. By keeping him offstage, she places the focus squarely on how adult desire, always rationalized, displaces a child's basic needs." |
| --Charlotte Stoudt, Los Angeles Times |
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Winner, Stanley Drama Award (2008) |
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| Angela Bullock and Jennifer Chang in Stray, Black Dahlia Theatre and Chalk Repertory Theatre (co-production), Los Angeles (2009). Photo: Larissa Kokernot. |
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