REPORT
By Emilia Cafiso

Written January 2024
Performed at Lincoln High School February - March 2024
Sydney Jordan as GIRL
Part of New Works: Student-Written Plays

The Lincoln Drama New Works Festival is in its 20th year! This annual production always offers a unique opportunity for young writers to pen plays about teenage themes, with all teenage characters to be played by teenage performers. In this season’s festival, four playwrights investigate: what are the ways in which we compete? Why do we feel a need to do so? How does competition play into the need for status? Power? Success? What does it mean to score… and to win… or to lose? The pieces span multiple genres and styles – from drama to comedy to thriller to the surreal…