I recently sat through a set of four short plays that were written, performed, directed, and crewed exclusively by 6th and 7th grade Drama students. Comic relief was supplied partly by an obviously last-minute decision to supply the actors with wired microphones — the chaos that caused simply cannot be described.
Each of the plays included a scene of girl-on-girl bullying, and these were by far the tightest, best-written, and most-focused scenes. If there is another group on the planet that does devastatingly bitchy, snotty, and mean like middle school girls, I would like never to meet them.
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