The 3 R's are golden at Taft Elementary. They stand for:
Respect - one another
Recognize - when you or someone else is being teased or bullied
Report - disrespectful behavior to a teacher, principal or other trusted adult
Dan's a 3rd grader who just transferred to Taft Elementary after his parents got divorced. Dan hopes to find his first friend in Tabitha but she seems more concerned about what hanging out with the "new kid" would do to her reputation.
Sharon, Mandy, Hannah and Renee have been best friends forever. They even started their own group, THE SUPERSTARS. However, when Renee starts taking dance classes outside of school and making new friends, Sharon tells the group to ignore her and decides not invite Renee to her birthday party, breaking a long SUPERSTAR tradition.
Their teacher, Ms. Sajak, has been observing all this teasing and bullying and knows it's time to remind her students about Taft's 3 R's by hosting her very own game show "RINGS OF REALITY".
This fun-filled show gets our audience involved in the action and leaves students and teachers with some lessons they can use every day!
6th grade: it was the year she wasn�t quite popular but content in her "almost coolness". 7th grade: it was the year she had her own journal and her own dramas. 8th grade: it was the year he had his first kiss and his first beer.
It's Junior High. A race to figure out you � your image. Standing up to 8th grade bullies, believing alcohol equals friends, watching siblings fight depression, and thinking "perfect" is possible by starving yourself are the challenges Becky, Jordan, Priscilla, TJ, Alex and their friends face as they stand on the "verge of their best years".
This play explores the issue of SAFETY -- to our self and in our relationships. Two girls begin by turning their pain inward, using self-injury and starvation as their ways to feel & get attention. A young boy deals with the physical outbursts of his mother and the fear of home. And a teenage girl finds light in the darkness of a heart that was blackened by a boyfriend consumed by alcohol and control. Watch as our characters are trying to stand up, trying to speak out and learning not to be afraid.
This play fuses a montage of scenes and poetry confronting the questions of fear, faith and hope. Fears of loss, commitment, disappointment, failure, the future race around the lives of young people. We found our fears layered in bodies and image, depression and substance use and even in the quirks of school, parents, dating and relationships.
Open your eyes to the world of adolescence -- revealing fears, looking for hope and wondering what's more frightening -- looking forward and not knowing what you can be or looking back and realizing what you could have been?
