Play Info

The following plays are appropriate for older elementary and early middle school students.

The Angels Must Be Smiling: A heart-warming story about the friendship of Angelina, a sensitive, middle school student and Christopher, a young boy with AIDS who comes to her school. This play examines the myths and misconceptions about AIDS and offers some important truths for young people.

Cool Kids:This play explores the issue of teens joining gangs. Cisco, a sixth grade boy is impressed when his older brother joins a gang. When Cisco's brother is shot by a gang member, Cisco sees firsthand just how dangerous gangs can become.

I Want To Know:This is an imaginative story about Annie, a young girl who overhears her family talking about AIDS and discovers her older brother is infected. As fear of the disease overcomes her, she imagines AIDS to be a scary monster that is stalking her. Annie learns to face her fears and becomes educated about disease. For middle school students.

Dear God Let Me Be Popular:This play is for middle school students and tells the story of several kids struggling with popularity and self-esteem. In a series of comic scenes and audience participation, the play encourages teens to make healthy decisions.

The following plays are appropriate for older middle school and high school students.

The End of Summer: Max, a pretty eigth grader from a troubled family, has planned a sleep over with three girlfriends to celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of high school. Complications arise when her older brother and his drunken friend crash the party. As the girls are pressured with alcohol and tobacco, they face choices that literally mean the difference between life and death, and the innocent sleep over turns into a night of tragedy.

Decisions:This large cast production for high school students explores some of the many difficult decisions today's teens face with each day. The play stresses how each decision we make affects our future.

First Time Club: Four girls seeking adventure decide to create "The First Time Club." The play begins in innocent childhood and takes the girls into the age of AIDS. Their friendship is tested when one of the girls becomes HIV positive.

The Day I Opened My Eyes: Commissioned by Global Partners in Washington, D.C., The Day I Opened My Eyes is hard-hitting and painfully honest, dealing with such issues as poverty, the lack of family planning in developing nations, HIV/AIDS, illegal abortions and honor crimes. Using powerful monologues, music, dance and larger than life photography, five teens travel on an imaginative journey into the lives of youth from different countries around the globe: Mexico, South Africa, The Netherlands, Pakistan and Nepal. In each country a different issue surrounding global health and international family planning is spotlighted, merging emotion and politics into real life stories of youth around the world.

Freshman Year: One of our best selling plays for upper middle and high school students. Freshman Year poignantly deals with the complicated issue of teen pregnancy. This play tells the story of three friends whose lives are forever altered by events that occur during their Freshman year of high school. The play also explores the problems of peer pressure, date rape and sexually transmitted infections.

The Girl I Used To Be: A powerful play for high school students that examines the lives of several teens caught up in the drug scene. This play tells the story of a young dancer named Cassidy whose life begins to fall apart after she falls in love with a teenage drug dealer. When Cassidy discovers her boyfriend is HIV positive she is forced to examine the choices she has made.

Joel's Story: A play that examines high-risk behavior and drug abuse, this hard-hitting play for high school students tells the story of two teens, Alison and Joel. (This play is a sequel to The First Time Club).

Perfect Son: A play for high school students that explores male responsibility and teen pregnancy, Perfect Son tells the story of Dylan, a teenage boy and his sister who ar living with a single parent. When Dylan becomes involved with a troubled girl who gets pregnant, he struggles to do the right thing and take responsibility.

Secrets: This play was written to shine a light on the hidden questions and feelings that grow into the secrets teens have regarding their sexuality. This large-cast play encourages teens to talk to responsible adults about their problems.

Surviving Lunch: (three boys, three girls), tells the story of Delia, a girl from New York City who moves to a small town after her father (a teacher) is killed in a school building. As Delia struggles to overcome her grief and start over in the new school, she notices a young boy being bullied in the hallway. Delia is determined to help the boy and in the process discovers the power of true friendship.

The Tobacco Club: A play about a diverse group of teenagers in after school detention for smoking. At times funny, but always brutally honest, this story is inspired by real life stories of teenagers trying to quit smoking.