"Bang, Bang, You're Dead," is the first play that I teach to my Drama One classes every year. It is very powerful and engaging. It's also, as I recall, royalty free. I would have a counselor talk to the students before signing off on the play, arrange a talkback for after the show, and insist on a strong director's note in the program if they have one, or posted in the lobby if not. It's an amazing show that makes a fabulous point without being gratuitous. It also disavows the "school shooters must be the victims of bullying" myth by showing what the shooter had going on in his mind.
"There's only us, there's only this:
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
No other path, no other way. No day
but today."
-Jonathan Larson
"Rent"
Disario, Jodi
Drama Teacher and Director