The Play Grounds, or Memento Vivere
by Bairton Brown
THE PLAY GROUNDS is a two-act dark comedy about suicide-prevention centering Aloe, a disabled, black teenager struggling to overcome his friend's death - and to reverse his own attempt at suicide. This thrilling, inclusive dramedy asks, "What if Hamlet decided NOT to be?" Could his friends, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, save him in time? How might they have learned a nonfatal means of resolving...
THE PLAY GROUNDS is a two-act dark comedy about suicide-prevention centering Aloe, a disabled, black teenager struggling to overcome his friend's death - and to reverse his own attempt at suicide. This thrilling, inclusive dramedy asks, "What if Hamlet decided NOT to be?" Could his friends, like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, save him in time? How might they have learned a nonfatal means of resolving intergenerational trauma? This play was commissioned for Congo Square Theatre’s S.G.R. Next-Up Playwriting Fellowship.
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