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 This play by Domonique Morriseau explores the American education system from a deeper perspective with respect to underprivileged students. The lead character is Nya, who is a high school teacher and mother to Omari, who goes to a private boarding school. Nya works in a less privileged high school and has made it her life mission to make sure Omari has a better education than her students are getting. Omari gets into a fight with a teacher in his school, and in an attempt to settle the issue, Omari thinks about running away from school and tells Jasmine, and his dad Xavier comes back into his life and tries to help him.

 Even though we haven't finished our project, I have a concept as to what it is going to look like when we finish it. We have done multiple run-throughs and made adjustments and editions to improve it. So far I love how we have been able to build a whole story from scratch while only using the topic of "social status", and I like how we have been able to have fun but stay on task. We have all made contributions to the piece and have shown maximum effort with all stunts. The main part of TPB we are using is verbatim, we have not really worried about verbatim, as the topic we're doing is relatable and it will be easy for us to talk about these topics. In the begining, I really had no idea what we were doing, but I realized that this type of theatre is free to interpretation, and you can use different forms of theater and methods of performance to express yourself. I never thought we would be able to tell a story about social class using horror and action, but we have ma...