TW7: Focus Group

Playwrights West and SouthWest StageWorks

proudly present

Teen West Project: Year Seven

A Short in the Wire

by various members of Playwrights West

The goal of the Teen West Project is to develop and eventually publish new theatrical works where aspects of the teen experience are explored and expressed through bold and innovative storytelling. In its seventh year collaborating with SouthWest StageWorks at Wilson High School, Playwrights West will mine the entire company, along with alumni and previous writers of Teen West, to create an evening of short works inspired by the question:  how have you been shorted?  This question, intended to be wide ranging in how it’s perceived, will hopefully generate incredible dialogue within the Wilson student community - conversations around issues of disenfranchisement, outdated systems, archaic paradigms, and uncontrollable life factors that lead to one feeling unable to fully climb the social and economic ladders of our time.

We are inviting students to a gathering on Tuesday 5/29 from 6:00p – 8:00p in the Drama Room.   Please sign up on the call-board if you wish to attend and contribute your thoughts to a conversation with the playwrights and director Matthew B. Zrebski.  (Seniors welcome!)