Date of Award

4-2007

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

Department

English

First Advisor

Dr. Steve Feffer

Abstract

The High School Play is a creative work, a full-length play in three acts. Set in suburban Richard M. Nixon High School, the play explores the notion o f adolescent identity while satirizing the American educational system’s artificial construction o f these identities. The play is especially concerned with theatrically representing the way students view each other through flawed frameworks based on preconceived notions o f race, gender, sexuality, and intelligence, as well as how this behavior shapes adolescents’ construction o f their own self-conceptions. The High School Play also deals with the difficulty schools experience in addressing the increasingly common controversial issues students experience as everyday social realities.

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Dissertation-Open Access

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