Larry Fangman

Doodlebug: a Selection of Plays Written by Wahoo High School Students for the Enersen Playwriting Contest 1995-2001 Larry Fangman

These award winning plays were written by Wahoo High School students for the Lincoln (Nebraska) Community Playhouse's, Enersen Playwriting Contest. One of the sixteen plays, Kate Decoste's, "Until My Last Breath," is about a girl coping with AIDS after one sexual encounter over summer vacation. Another selection, Amanda Hall and Melissa Swanson's, "A Gorilla's Way of Wagging Its Tail," is about five friends visiting a Gypsy. As she predicts the future and reveals secrets buried in the past, the kids learn that everyone's future starts with today's decisions. In Ian Richmond's, "The Kids Are All Right," a group of friends write poems and share them with their friends in order to deal with their feelings, express their ideas, and survive family problems. As they try to figure out God and their place in the world, their friendship and poetry allows them to believe that, at least for another day, they will be all right!This book brings together in one place, for the first time, the three Wahoo High School plays that captured first prize in the Enersen Playwriting Contest: "Until My Last Breath," by Kate DeCoste, "The Locket," by Peggy Sharp, and "An Identical Stranger," by Megan Rezac. As you read this book, you will discover the joy of young writers finding their "voice" for the first time.