Title
DON'T SAY IT
Playwright
KATHY RAY
Synopsis

This simple 20-25 minute 1-act play allows an almost unlimited number of elementary and middle school children to protest bullying by name calling. It opens with students carrying protest signs, such as "No more hurting people" and "Down with teasers." Students are encouraged to think up new ideas for their signs.

Bullying becomes illegal with culprits sentenced to a learning school in the forest. Three students are found guilty. During a storm they have a surreal experience similar to Scrooge's Ghost of the Future. They realize that their actions have alienated everyone except their parents. As they "come to," all the students arrive with their posters. They agree that a person tempted to say something bad should remember, "Just Don't Say It!"

Simple, flexible set, modern clothes.

Other plays about social issues: Artie, A Friend Like Artie, Close the Door So It Can't Get Into Your Room, A Different Drummer, Don't Say It, Help, How Reading Came Back to Nowhere, Isolation, The Other Person's Shoes, The River Between, All the World's a Stage, Stark Drama, Stations, A Trying Ordeal, Turners, Welcome to Carnie, What Will Happen to the Children?

For the young: The Boy Who Stole the Fourth of July, Captain Noah, A Ghost for Rosanda, I'm a Celebrity, Little Red Riding Wolf, The Mystery of the Peanut-Butter Spacemen, Rock Bottom, Toys in the Haunted Castle, Who Can Fix the Dragon's Wagon


Cast Size
6M, 7W, EXTRAS
Playing Time
20-25 MIN.
ISBN
W5074

Price
BOOKS $4.75; ROYALTY $35/$25