In January 2011, we partnered with the McGivney Community Center and the Bridgeport Housing Authority to work on a youth forum project.  20 youths participated for 5 months.  The youths talked passionately about bullying, teen pregnancy, racism and baggy pants and so they wrote this play.

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During class, the kids developed situations around those topics and acted them out.  We explored different storylines for weeks to bring these topics to life.  Youth leaders would take turns typing out dialogue taken from improv sketches, print the script then act them out.  They would revise the script then act them out again.  Revise then act, revise then act.  You get the point.  The youths were driven to make the story realistic and the performance better every session.  It was well worth it.

We performed this play in June 2011 at the Downtown Cabaret Theater to rave reviews.  So much so that we’re doing it again in June 2012 at the DCT.

Watch The Trailer