One Dramatic Publishing play that I really, really love is
A Heart Divided. Although it was written for a small multi-racial cast with actors playing multiple roles, the script allows you to break up casting one actor to a part, which significantly increases the size of the cast. The story is about a high-school girl whose family moves from New York City to a small town in Tennessee, where she falls in love with the star of her new school's football team, only to find the two of them taking opposite sides when a controversy erupts over the town's flying of the Confederate battle flag outside of City Hall and the use of "Rebels" as the high school athletic teams' name. Although the piece is fictional, it consciously adopts the presentational style of
The Laramie Project. If you want something lighter and don't already have
The Mouse That Roared, it's a reliable standby that my kids had fun with last year, and it's in this company's catalog, as well.
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Jeff Grove
Theatre Teacher, Aesthetics Department Chair
Stanton College Preparatory School
Jacksonville FL