Fahrenheit 1700
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A bunch of high school students are sick of being trained to pass tests rather than receiving a real learning experience. So instead of a test taking rehearsal they decide instead to take over their classroom to play their unique version of volleyball. When the principal and security cop intervene they are taken hostage and administered a learning experience of their own while the teacher is allowed observer status. They will remain in detention until they understand what is wrong with the questions and answers they are being made to memorize. Questions and answers are from actual NY and CA high school mandatory tests.
Jim Pangrazio
The general consensus is that change is urgent. Yet those claiming to work toward that end choose illusory paths that serve more as an impediment to the change they profess to seek. It is a closed loop -- a path that follows itself -- a safe at home tour rather than an expedition in search of wherever. My plays attempt to untangle the complex knots created by repeated trips to nowhere by focusing on the fearful simplicity of uncontaminated life where acceptance and rejection meet to hash out what's bothering them.
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Fahrenheit 1700 - Jim Pangrazio
FAHRENHEIT 1700
(Temperature it takes to Incinerate a Brain)
Published by Jim Pangrazio at Smashwords
Copyright 2014 Jim Pangrazio
ISBN: 9781310580024
Time: Today. Scene: A city public school classroom. Cast: Students – Worm, Sketch, Spike, Rip, Score (can have more students - names are not gender specific). Teacher – Ms Dotson. Principal – Osgood. Cop/Security – Hank.
(Scene opens with the students dressed in mismatched parts of mandatory school uniforms. They are playing volleyball. Barriers of some sort have been set up instead of a net and to mark off boundaries. Depending on the number of students, instead of playing a few may be reading, sketching, dozing, etc. Teacher, Principal and Cop enter through the audience. Note: Questions are from actual NY and CA mandatory tests.]
(Ball is struck and goes out of bounds into the audience. Either Worm or someone in the audience retrieves ball as first lines spoken.)
SPIKE: (Student that struck ball) What are you doing?!
RIP: Doesn't this chair mark the boundary?
SPIKE: Weren't you listening when we made our rules?
SCORE: (Teasingly) Rip is too rule-bound to even comprehend a change of rules.
RIP: I don't understand how you can play