Power Play

Power Play 

by Lindsay Price 


55 Minutes, 2M+3W, Simple Set, 38 pages


Suitable for

High Schools


A dramatic play sure to evoke discussion and dialogue.


A gunshot is heard. Which of the five characters did it and why?


Was it the Goth girl? The football star? The super-intelligent geek?


High school violence is a hot media topic, but it is too often simplistically portrayed by putting teens into tidy categories and pointing at the outsider.


Power Play explores the realities and the stereotypes of high school violence - not just the brutal shock of the school shooting, but also verbal harassment and bullying. Violence is about power. So is high school.


NOTE: This play requires the onstage appearance of a gun.