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HOW TO ORDER A READING COPY

The play will be published shortly by Playscripts, Inc. But in the meantime, you may order a perusal copy from YouthPlays.com, your source for the best new plays for schools, youth theatres, camps and more.


ABOUT THE PLAY

Dramedy. Requires an ensemble of a minimum of 10-12 actors and a maximum of 30+ (most roles are gender flexible, though there should be at least 3-4 actors of each gender). 30-35 minutes. All settings are meant to be suggested.

Thank You for Flushing My Head in the Toilet and other rarely used expressions world premiered at the Springfield Academy of Arts and Academics (Springfield, OR), directed by Mike Fisher. Special thanks also to Idyllwild Arts Academy, where the play was first read, and to Socorro High School (El Paso, TX), the second production of the play and my last stop before turning it over to Playscripts to publish.

The Springfield Academy of Arts and Academics production (Springfield, OR).

SYNOPSIS

Thank You for Flushing... uses scenes and monologues that range from the offbeat and wildly theatrical to quiet moments of heartbreak as it takes a look at one of the biggest problems facing teens today: bullying.

Achilles and Helen get picked on at school--a lot. Achilles has a regular date with a bully who flushes his head in the toilet, and Helen has become so afraid of the girls who ridicule her that she invents reasons to be late. So when cool girl Glinda appears and offers them a way out--she's their "bully buddy"--they jump at the chance. But Glinda's solution is to turn them into bullies. They both resist, and she sends them back to a school that is even worse than the one they left. Their only means of escape is to try it Glinda's way. But does saving themselves mean becoming the people they hate?

Prometheus practices being bullied in the Springfield production.

A THANK YOU NOTE

Read the opening of THANK YOU FOR FLUSHING... as a PDF file using the free Adobe Acrobat reader.

 

 

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