A new play available from YouthPLAYS, Inc.
This was a fun play to write - especially coming up with the outlandish excuses the students try to use on their teacher! I don't consider it high art, just a fun, silly romp that I would have loved to perform when I was a kid, and one I think will give parents a good laugh.
As the publisher describes it, "Students the world over have been crying out for a simple instruction manual in the art of avoiding homework, and finally their prayers have been answered. Watch and learn how to bamboozle your parents and put one over on your teachers in this fast-paced, tongue-deeply-in-cheek guide to tactics that just might change your life…or land you in a heap of trouble!"
Sample Dialogue...
How Not to Do Your Homework history.
How Not to Do Your Homework premiered at the Captain Samuel Douglass Academy Elementary School in Brookline, NH in 2020, and has since been performed by so many schools and drama groups, from Riverside Children's Arts Center in Jacksonville, FL to Mount St Bernard College in Herberton, Queensland, Australia (They apparently don't like to do homework down under any more than in the US!)
More recently, the play was performed by Center Stage Jacksonville Theatre Company in Jacksonville, NC, and St. John - St. James Lutheran School in Reedsville, WI, Calvert County Summer Arts Academy in Prince Frederick, MD, and the O'Grady Drama Academy in Como, NSW, Australia.
Recent productions
The play was just produced in Sanborn, Iowa at the Sanborn Christian School. More productions to come this year, but they havent officiallly been announced yet!
International premiere
The first overseas production of How Not to Do Your Homework was in Queensland Australia in 2021, but in May of 2024, it also became my first play ever in France!
Theatre Music Action 31 in Toulouse!
