Overview

Too many high school actors perform works unrelated to their age or their needs or experience. Their work is often forced to be "clever" rather than honest and meaningful. Finding this artistically unproductive, Baker's commissioned New York's Circle Rep playwright Peter Dee to develop a series of contemporary scenes and monologues suitable for production in secondary schools. Dee has brilliantly created vignettes reflecting the joys and troubles of growing up too quickly in America. The scenes are devastatingly honest, sometimes hilarious and always speak from and to the heart. The monologues and two character scenes cover such diverse subjects as alcoholism, love, drugs, teacher-student rapport, teen pregnancy, suicide, and much more.

Enthusiastic reports from drama coaches.

Mr. Dee is the recipient of The International Director's Award given by the Thespian Society.