Young Playwrights Festival
And so it is with the Young Playwrights Festival, an exciting academic exercise for students. When I taught a six-week playwriting workshop at Von Steuben High School a few years ago, helping the senior English class develop their submissions for the competition, it was all I could do to keep the kids in their seats when they saw their words acted out in class. I watched young writers truly come to life–especially those who’d suffered years of discouragement from friends and even teachers. Besides, any 17-year-old who writes something longer than five pages and nominally coherent gets a medal in my book. Now in its tenth year, the festival attracted some 400 submissions, an inspiring creative outpouring of which Pegasus can be proud.
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Next year they should let the kids direct. Pandemonium may be the result, but at least there will be signs of life onstage.
