I heard an excerpt from SCHOOL PICTURES on This American Life and was charmed, moved, and desperate for more. The play doesn’t disappoint; Cramer creates funny, tender portraits of tweens and teens, peppered with self-deprecating humor that’s recognizable to anyone who’s felt like an imposter pretending to be a grown-up, or desperately wanted to be liked by a kid (notoriously impossible). They play’s thesis—about who gets to tell stories, and about our broken education system and our broken world—is an open-ended question, rather than a statement. Grown-ups are just looking for answers, too.
I heard an excerpt from SCHOOL PICTURES on This American Life and was charmed, moved, and desperate for more. The play doesn’t disappoint; Cramer creates funny, tender portraits of tweens and teens, peppered with self-deprecating humor that’s recognizable to anyone who’s felt like an imposter pretending to be a grown-up, or desperately wanted to be liked by a kid (notoriously impossible). They play’s thesis—about who gets to tell stories, and about our broken education system and our broken world—is an open-ended question, rather than a statement. Grown-ups are just looking for answers, too.