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Doctoral Dissertation Announcement
Candidate: Kevin R. Drzakowski
Degree of:
Doctor of Philosophy
Department: English
Title: the High School Play
Committee:
Dr. Steve Feffer, Chair
Dr. William A. Johnston
Dr. Anthony Ellis
Dr. Jennifer Chapman
Date: Friday, March 23, 2007 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
3001 Waldo Library
Abstract:
The High School Play is a creative work, a full-length play in three acts. Set in suburban Richard M. Nixon High School, the play explores the notion of adolescent identity while satirizing the American educational system’s artificial construction of these identities. The play is especially concerned with theatrically representing the way students view each other through flawed frameworks based on preconceived notions of race, gender, sexuality, and intelligence, as well as how this behavior shapes adolescents’ construction of their own self-conceptions. The High School Play also deals with the difficulty schools experience in addressing the increasingly common controversial issues students experience as everyday social realities.