<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n “Gossip”<\/strong> <\/p>\n “The Obstacles of Youth”<\/strong> <\/p>\n “School Talk”<\/strong> <\/p>\n “The Cafeteria Incident”\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n “The Case of Tommy Smith vs. Jimmy Hall”<\/strong> <\/p>\n “Student Affairs” <\/p>\n “The Bully Plays” <\/p>\n New Playwright’s Festival<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.3.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.3.2″]<\/p>\n The Theatre has also sponsored theatre camps for many years. During the last few years much emphasis has been placed on junior and senior high school programming.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Youth Theatre New Playwright’s ProjectThe basic program involves students working with theatre professionals to create one act plays that deal with socially relevant\u00a0 issues that students will encounter during their junior and senior high school careers. The projects aims are to deter delinquent behavior by using the theatre arts to refocus young people’s energies and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-267","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrantonpublictheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrantonpublictheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrantonpublictheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrantonpublictheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrantonpublictheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/scrantonpublictheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/scrantonpublictheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrantonpublictheatre.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
South Scranton Intermediate School, 2000<\/em>
An 8th grade student inspired one act play about the consequences created by false rumors about fellow classmates.<\/p>\n
West Scranton High School, 2000-2002<\/em>
3 one act plays about underage drinking, teen pregnancy, and date violence presented in collaboration with the Lackawanna County District Attorney’s office. The 3 plays were toured to other high schools in surrounding Scranton region.<\/p>\n
Wilkes-Barre Area Vocational Technical School, 2001<\/em>
A one act play that covers social issues that students face during their high school careers. Inspired by true stories coming from the students themselves. Sponsored in part by school districts that make up the area vocational school.<\/p>\n
Wilkes-Barre Area Vocational Technical School, 2004<\/em>
A student pulls out a chair from underneath another student who was about to sit down in it during lunchtime. What happens next created two assaults, students threatening other students, and a trip to juvenile court with a real life judge presiding over it.<\/p>\n
2006, 2009, 2010, 2014<\/em>
Toured to many schools and other performances during the years. Sponsored by the Lackawanna Bar Association, Lackawanna County Arts & Culture, the District Attorney’s Office of Lackawanna County.\u00a0The popular play about bullying involves a male student beating another student in a bathroom at school over a female student. The play highlighted an assault case that 3 different judges from the Court of Common Pleas presided over during its long run over the years.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>2010<\/em>
Produced initially at Old Forge High School in Lackawanna County, the play enjoyed an extensive tour to regional high schools. The show covered a wide range of topics concerning cyber bullying, drug and alcohol abuse, and their consequences.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>2015<\/em>
Two one act plays about what students can go through when they are constantly verbally and physically abused in school by other students. Presented as part of Carbondale High School’s anti-bullying program.<\/p>\n
Carbondale Area High School, 2017-Present<\/em>
In 2017, SPT in conjunction with the Carbondale Area School District launched a program aimed at giving students at the high school the opportunity to write one act plays about topics that were important to them. For students in the Senior Advanced Writing Composition course, it was mandatory. As a result, 7 new plays were developed and produced by students, who wrote them, acted in them, and worked under the professional guidance of members from SPT. Topics have ranged from a star baseball player who thinks he has impregnated a girl that he doesn’t like, to high school student infidelity, to the sensitive topics of teen suicide, date violence, and a hilarious play about asking someone to the prom and the anxiety that can come with it.
The New Playwright’s Festival is ongoing and plans are now in the works to develop a county-wide festival of new plays written and\u00a0performed by students from Lackawanna County.\u00a0<\/p>\nChildren’s Theatre Program<\/h1>\n
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From 1982 thru 2007, SPT toured children’s theatre plays, employing professional actors to 20 school districts located in the 7 counties of Northeast PA. The program was widely popular, but funding for the projects became more and more scarce, so the theatre decided to concentrate its efforts developing plays with junior and senior high school students.<\/p>\n