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MUCH ADO ABOUT MIDDLE SCHOOL
ISBN: 978-1-61588-106-2
Type: Full Length
Genre: Comedy
Themes: Teen Experience, Dating
Duration: 90 minutes
Speaking Cast: 13 females, 11 males (24 total cast)
Flexibility: 20 extras, gender flexible
SYNOPSIS: Monica likes Jason, Jason likes Erika, Andrea likes Reilly, Reilly is clueless, and they’re all overwhelmed by too much homework, too many tests, pop quizzes, and teachers with nothing better to do than assign essays. And, unless they have good grades, the principal is going to cancel the Sixteenth Annual Super Sweetheart’s Dance Extravapalooza - the biggest social event of the year!
The students decide that if they can just get their single teachers to fall in love, they will end up with less homework, their grades will improve, and everyone will get to attend the Dance-a-palooza! Unfortunately, it’s one disaster after another until the students realize that love is not something that can be manufactured and manipulated with love letters, poems, potions, or any other magic except the genuine magic that comes from the heart.
Millburn Middle School Lindenhurst, IL Space Center Intermediate Houston, TX St. Patrick High School Biloxi, MS Cary High School Cary, NC RDMS Drama Club River Edge, NJ Savannah Middle School Savannah, MO
Tex Hill Middle School San Antonio, TX Wydown Middle School Clayton, MO Pine View Middle School Land O' Lakes, FL Scoggins Middle School Dallas, GA Mascoutah Middle School Mascoutah, IL Johnson Middle School Walpole, MA Language Academy of Sacramento Sacramento, CA CY Middle School Drama Club Casper, WY Chula Vista Middle School Chula Vista, CA Robert Frost Middle School Deerpark, NY Gaithersburg Middle School Gaithersburg, MD Minster High School Minster, OH Ben Franklin JHS Stevens Point, WI Sandburg Middle School Elmhurst, IL Greensburg Junior High School Greensburg, IN Plank Jr. High Oswego, IL Thomas Jefferson Middle School Valparaiso, IN Win-E-Mac Public School Erskine, MN Virginia C.U.S.D. #64 Virginia, IL Paoli Jr.-Sr. High School Paoli, IN Canon City Middle School Canon City, CO Faribault Middle School (ISD 656) Drama Faribault, MN Worcester Preparatory School Berlin, MD Creekwood Middle School Kingwood, TX El Portal Middle School Escalon, CA Central Community Schools- Admin De Witt, IA
The play is based loosely upon Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer-Night’s Dream. In Much Ado About Middle School, the students are performing DREAM, and we also have the pairing of similar characters...those who are too shy to act on their love, and those who are blinded, for whatever reason, to true love. Reilly plays Puck, the mover of action. He is capricious and funny, and the play is, ostensibly, about him and his feelings, hidden and otherwise, for Andrea.
There is an element of fantasy about the play...the Dream Scene being one, and like DREAM, often traverses the line between fantasy and reality. The scene at the end, during the play-within-a-play, Reilly breaks the barrier between what is illusion, and what is real. He has the knowledge that this is a play within a play, and that all of life is but a dream.
But, love overcomes the fantasy, and all philosophical angles. This is, after all, a play about love and its many guises. Reilly is, at the end, unmasked, and allows himself to feel untethered by anything other than his true feelings for Andrea.
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