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Dark Comedy |
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Full-length, 110-120 minutes
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4 females, 3 males |
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The set is stark and fractured, expressed minimally with no walls. Huge pictures of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other dead white males look down from above.
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Adult language and content |
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| Meet Janet, a rookie history teacher who goes from idealist to burnout as she fights insidious internal politics in her effort to truly affect her students. During her tenure Janet learns how to write a proper self-evaluation, censor musicals, and cultivate paranoia in a system dominated by constant accountability and deep corruption. When Janet's mentor has a nervous breakdown while being forced to teach creationism, Janet is called to testify against her, and then something even more tragic occurs in this biting satire of the public school system. |
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| "Astonishing how a play could be written with such tenderness, sympathy, humor, understanding and still drive the nail into the heart of the matter with exceeding force. It is creative verbal genius." |
| --Holly Bartges, Coloradobackstage |
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Regional winner, American College Theatre Festival, 2000 |
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Semi-finalist, Eugene O'Neill Festival |
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| Stephanie Hanson, Missy Moore, Jedidiah Schultz, and Kevin H. Sweeney in Dead White Males, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming (2003). |
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