From: Christopher Johnson [mailto:corpuschristopher@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 7:06 PM
Subject: SPEECH & DEBATE at Live Theatre Workshop
ETCETERA, the late night series at Live Theatre Workshop, proudly presents...
SPEECH & DEBATE
By Stephen Karam
A Black Comedy (with Music) about inappropriate touching...
Even though they attend the same high school in Salem, Oregon; misfits Solomon, Diwata, and Howie have never met. Solomon (Paul Matlock) writes for the school paper but has yet to write a word that hasn’t been censored by the school board, Howie (Christopher Johnson) came out of the closet when he was 10 years old but hasn’t come out since transferring to this new high school and Diwata (Carley Preston) just wants to play the lead in the school musical - which she has been banned from pending a restraining order. When a shocking sex scandal involving one of their teachers brings the three of them together, they form the school’s first Speech & Debate Team to make their voices heard. As the unlikely trio negotiates adolescent trials of identity, sexuality, and belonging, they combat pervasive adult hypocrisy and discover that their voices are much stronger, louder and relevant when united than when trying to be heard as individuals.
Variety says playwright Stephen Karam’s poignant, insightful, and hilarious new black comedy is “bristling with vitality, wicked humor, terrific dialogue, and a direct pipeline into the zeitgeist of contemporary youth.”
Let the high school witch hunt commence!
"A plot description doesn’t hint at how funny and cliché-free this brilliant little show is... The play’s real accomplishment is its picture of the borderland between late adolescence and adulthood, where grown-up ideas and ambition coexist with childish will and bravado... The triumph of this play is that we never feel we’re being educated, just immensely entertained.
-Caryn James, The New York Times
JUNE 12-27, 2009
Friday & Saturday nights at 10:30 PM
Tickets $10 at the LTW Box Office
Call 481-1449 for reservations
www.EtceteraLateNight.com
Featuring Christopher Johnson, Kristi Loera, Paul Matlock and Carley Preston.
Original illustrations by Lucille Petty with Choreography by Amanda Gremel.
Directed by Christopher Johnson.
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