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"Sticks and stones my break my bones by names can never hurt me." ...NOT!
"If there's one goal of this conference it's to dispel the myth that bullying is just a harmless rite of passage or an inevitable part of growing up. It's not." —Barack Obama
"I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt." —Robert Cormier
This collection of plays is funny, sad, powerful and important.
Bullying is a catch-phrase for treating others as less than human. All of these plays help teenagers develop their moral imaginations and see that there is no us/them. There is only us.
The Bully Plays is a tasty antidote to our toxic teen culture.
—Mary Pipher, Ph.D., Author of Reviving Ophelia
"He was like the sky, only nobody looked up!" —quote from BLU |
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Drama/Comedy. Written by Sandra Fenichel Asher, Cherie Bennett, Max Bush, José Casas, Gloria Bond Clunie, Eric Coble, Doug Cooney, Linda Daugherty, Lisa Dillman, Richard Dresser, José Cruz González, Stephen Gregg, D.W. Gregory, Brian Guehring, Dwayne Hartford, Barry Kornhauser, Trish Lindberg, Brett Neveu, Ernie Nolan, R.N. Sandberg, Geraldine Ann Snyder, Werner Trieschmann, Elizabeth Wong and Y York. Compiled and edited by Linda Habjan. Cast: 4 to 25+. This anthology was commissioned in response to the growing epidemic of bullying and the all-too-often tragic results. The anthology includes 24 10-minute plays that can be performed in any combination or length and in a variety of venues. The plays are touching, imaginative, powerful, uplifting and funny. A botched chemistry experiment creates a horde of homophobic teenage zombie bullies. A teenager poignantly relates to his dad how a bullied classmate resorted to physical violence. Three dinosaurs at a museum surprise three bickering kids on a school outing. A bully is forced to confront his victim "on the other side." A boy confronts a beast in ancient Greece, who provides him with a different perspective on who's the beast. A girl on an anti-bullying crusade must face her own bullying. High-school kids discuss the heartbreak of realizing they contributed to a classmate's death by remaining bystanders. A mother and brother try to come to terms with the suicide of their "technicolor" son and brother. The trickle-down effect of bullying is explored in several plays, along with the dangers of cyber-bullying. The collection also includes a mimed piece and a play in rhymed verse. This collection of short plays will challenge, inspire and enlighten your audiences and help you confront the issue of bullying in a constructive and creative way. Simple staging.
Plays in this collection:
- Alex (a conversation about nothing)
- Beasts
- BLU
- Bully-Bully
- The Bully Pulpit
- A Bully There Be
- A Bunch of Clowns
- Bystander Blues
- The Conundrum
- Downhill
- The Final Testimony of Henry Samson
- Flash Mob
- Gasp, Farrah & Monster
- Glorious Gail
- Happy Birthday, Heather Higby (I Am Plotting Your Doom)
- Her
- Here Be Dragons
- Mindless, Drooling, Teenage Zombie Bullies
- The New Kid
- Nobody Nose (The Trouble I've Seen)
- "Send"
- The Shirt
- We're Your Friends
- What Goes Around
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|  | Sandra Fenichel Asher has published 30 books for young readers (as Sandy Asher) and nearly three dozen plays including Across the Plains; Emma; I Will Sing Life; Keeping Mr. Lincoln; Romeo and Juliet—Together (and Alive!) at Last; Somebody Catch My Homework; Too Many Frogs and The Wise Men of Chelm (all Dramatic Publishing). Among her many honors are the AATE ...More |  | Cherie Bennett often writes on teen themes. Searching for David's Heart began as a best-selling 1998 novel for Scholastic and has now gone through 10 printings. As an unpublished play, it won many playwriting awards; look for it to be a Disney Channel movie in the near future. A two-time Kennedy Center New Visions/New Voices biennial winner, Bennett's other plays ...More |  | Max Bush is a freelance playwright and director whose plays are widely produced on professional, educational and amateur stages across the country. He's won many awards for his work including the Distinguished Play Award from AATE, the IUPUI National Playwrighting Competition, and Individual Artist Grants from Michigan Council for the Arts. He's been commissioned by the Nashville Academy Theatre, Emmy ...More |  | José Casas is a playwright, director and actor from Baldwin Park, California. He has a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from the University of California (Santa Barbara), an M.A. in Theatre Arts from California State University (Los Angeles) and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing/ Playwriting from Arizona State University. His plays include: A Bag of Oranges, The Assassination of Erik Estrada, ...More |  | Gloria Bond Clunie is a playwright, director and creative drama specialist. Her play North Star premiered at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago and won the 1995 Joseph Jefferson Chicago Theatre Award for Best New Work/Adaptation and the 1994 Theodore Ward African-American Playwriting Award. Other produced works include Secrets; Sing! Malindy, Sing!; Dream: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; ...More |  | Eric Coble was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and bred on the Navajo and Ute reservations in New Mexico and Colorado. His plays have been produced off-Broadway, throughout the United States and on several continents including productions at Manhattan Class Company, the Kennedy Center, Playwrights Horizons, Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, Alliance Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Laguna ...More |  | Doug Cooney is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. His play The Final Tour was workshopped at Sundance Theater Labs with Moises Kaufman directing John Neville and Mary Lou Rosato. He collaborated with composer David O on an original youth musical, The Legend of Alex, produced by the Mark Taper Forum P.L.A.Y., and the musical adaptation of George Saunders' The Very ...More |  | Linda Daugherty is playwright in residence at Dallas Children's Theater, named as one of the country's top five children's theaters by Time magazine. More than 25 of her plays have premiered at Dallas Children's Theater, and national touring productions of her plays have been presented in more than 150 cities in 41 states. Her plays have also been produced at ...More |  | Lisa Dillman's plays have been produced in Chicago at Steppenwolf, American Theatre Company, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, and Collaboraction; in New York at the Hypothetical Theatre Company; in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at Theaterwork; and elsewhere around the country. Her play Six Postcards was featured in the Goodman Theatre's 2005 New Stages Festival. Dillman has received the Sprenger—Lang New History Play ...More |  | Richard Dresser's plays are widely produced in New York, regional theater and Europe. His recently published trilogy of plays about happiness in America includes Augusta (working class), The Pursuit of Happiness (middle class) and A View of the Harbor (upper class). Other plays are Rounding Third, which appeared off-Broadway after regional productions in Chicago (Northlight Theater) and The Old Globe, ...More |  | José Cruz González's plays include The Blue House, Sunsets and Margaritas, The Heart's Desire, Tomás and the Library Lady (which toured nationally in 2008), The Cloud Gatherer, Earth Songs, Waking Up in Lost Hills, September Shoes and Harvest Moon. A collection of his plays, Nine Plays by José Cruz González: Magical Realism & Mature Themes in Theatre for Young Audiences, ...More | | |  | Stephen Gregg's plays include One Lane Bridge, Poor Little Lambs, Sex Lives of Superheroes, Small Actors, S.P.A.R., Sunday Night, This Is a Test, Twitch, Wake-Up Call, Why Do We Laugh? and The Zero Sum Mind. He is the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis; Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award for best 10-minute play (A ...More |  | D.W. Gregory writes comedies and dramas that draw on her working-class roots. Often set in rural America, her plays explore the disconnect between the dream and reality of American blue-collar experience. Whether a dark, expressionistic comedy such as The Good Girl Is Gone or a Brechtian drama such as Radium Girls, her plays frequently present an unseen offstage character as ...More |  | Brian Guehring is the playwright-in-residence for the Omaha Theater Company for Young People. For the OTC, he has written world premiere adaptations of the Newberry Award-winning novel Julie of the Wolves (directed by Everett Quinton) and the Newberry Honor Book Millions of Cats. The company has also produced his new scripts Brave Little Tailor, Tall Tale Heroes and Sacagawea: Discovering ...More | | |  | Dwayne Hartford is a playwright, director and actor originally from Maine, now living in Phoenix. He is an associate artist and playwright-in-residence with Childsplay, Inc., in Tempe. Hartford earned his B.F.A. from the Boston Conservatory.More |  | Barry Kornhauser, playwright-in-residence and director of Family Theater at the National Historic Landmark Fulton Opera House, Lancaster, Pa., is the United States nominee for the 2008 ASSITEJ International Award for Artistic Excellence. He has received the AATE Distinguished Play Award, the IRT/Bonderman Playwriting Prize, a TYA/USA International Observership and its Best Plays of the Decade commendation, and fellowships and grants ...More | | |  | Brett Neveu's work has been produced by a number of companies including the Goodman Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Rogue Machine Theatre, A Red Orchid Theatre, Strawdog Theatre, TimeLine Theatre Company, American Theatre Company, Spring Theatreworks, Aardvark Theatre and 29th Street Rep. He is the recipient of the Ofner Prize for New Work, the Emerging Artist Award from the League ...More |  | Ernie Nolan, a proud graduate of both the University of Michigan Musical Theatre Program (B.F.A., musical theatre) and The Theatre School at DePaul University (M.F.A., directing), is a director and playwright dedicated to new works and re-imagining classic stories for young audiences. As the associate artistic director of Emerald City Theatre in Chicago, he has created The PlayGround, a process ...More |  | R.N. Sandberg's plays have been seen in Australia, Canada, England, Japan, Panama and South Korea as well at U.S. theaters such as Barter Theatre, Dallas Children's Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Intiman Theatre, La Mama, Providence Black Rep, Stage One: Louisville's Children's Theatre, Stages Repertory Theatre and Yale Cabaret. He has been commissioned by, among others, McCarter Theatre, Metro Theater Company ...More |  | Geraldine Ann Snyder has gained wide recognition for her work on behalf of young people. Her plays address complex issues through the use of music, comedy and drama. Co-founder (with Paul Lenzi) of the Blue Apple Players (A.P.P.L.E. INC.), Louisville, Kentucky, she has toured throughout the state of Kentucky and performed on stages from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. ...More |  | Werner Trieschmann's numerous plays including Failing the Improv, You Have to Serve Somebody and Killers have been staged by Moving Arts in Los Angeles, Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, The New Theatre in Boston, Mobtown Players in Baltimore and Red Octopus Productions in Little Rock, Arkansas. His full-length comedy You Have to Serve Somebody is published by Dramatic ...More |  | Elizabeth Wong, playwright, is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She directed her latest play Dating and Mating in Modern Times at Theatre Emory in Atlanta, Ga and at the 2003 Brave New Works Festival. The Happy Prince, her opera for young audiences with Grammy-winning composer Michael Silversher, was commissioned by the Kennedy Center ...More |  | Y York's third-millennium plays include Eggs (People's Light & Theatre Company premiere, 2009); and L.A. Is Burning (New Harmony Project, 2007, Main Street Theater, Houston, 2008 premiere); Getting Near to Baby (2008 People's Light & Theatre Company, Barrymore nomination for Outstanding New Play); River Rat and Cat (2006 ChildsPlay, Arizona premiere); Nothing Is the Same (TCG-Pew Charitable Trust, 2004 Kennedy ...More |
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