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Everyday Heroes

  • Laurie Brooks
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: E49

"Though written before September 11, it's an incredibly apt comment on those events...the most important new play staged in Kansas City this season."

The Pitch, Kansas City, Mo.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 75 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult, Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Area Staging

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, High School/Secondary
Kurt and Win Lawrence have spent their young lives taking care of their alcoholic mother. When a devastating fire decimates their home, the younger brother, Win, becomes a reluctant media hero, but the brothers harbor a terrible secret. 

As the media moves closer and closer to the truth, Win, with the help of a female firefighter, Jo Judson, must make a choice between loyalty to his brother and revealing the truth. Ultimately, the insistent voice of Wines conscience leads him to his decision, raising questions about heroic actions that save lives and heroic actions toward others based on personal ethics. The story of Everyday Heroes raises three questions:

What happens in the aftermath of a heroic event that is predicated on lies?

How does the distorted truth of the media become more valid than reality?

What are the consequences of the silencing of the emotional lives of young men?
Live cameras project the news scenes as they occur, creating a simultaneous broadcast so that audiences experience the play in two ways: as the actors play it and through the close-up projections of a live broadcast. 
REVIEWS:

"Though written before September 11, it's an incredibly apt comment on those events... the most important new play staged in Kansas City this season."

The Pitch, Kansas City, MO.

Premiere Production: Everyday Heroes was commissioned by The Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration of Salt Lake City in conjunction with the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Expandable casting

Available Material

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Everyday Heroes Script This is optional. Order Now

Kurt and Win Lawrence have spent their young lives taking care of their alcoholic mother. 

$19.95

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