Students and adults make up the cast in this unusual play, Reunion, Memories of High School. It isn't about a high school reunion, it is about all high school reunions, of all the high school classes and all the years. This approach allows a wide diversity of ages for the Reunionite adults—ex-students gathering for several class reunions. As they reminisce, the students they used to be appear and act out the reminiscence. It's funny, it's touching, and it will bring a better understanding among teenagers and their teachers and parents.

Jerome McDonough, the "Father of Young Adult Drama" (English Journal), puts his drama in new wrappings—a gift for the teen actor and his/her mentors. Students, teachers, and parents can come together in a unique way which will increase interaction and understanding between the youthful and the more mature. This is a funny play which will bring the audience to tears—tears of recollection and love.

The play shows adults returning to school for a reunion. As they reminisce, their teenage counterparts (as they were as students) act out the reminiscence, so adults and students have the same names. Before you say that it won't work, think a moment. High school at the level of "going to school" is not too different today than it was in the '50's. We still fall in love, have blind dates, go to games, feel stupid, and on and on. So we sidestep history, not only history in its concrete facts, but history in its day-to-day fads and fashions and in its year-to-year global concerns. Life for teenages of all eras involves the concept of living today as it comes and believing in a better tomorrow—except when everything is a disaster and the world is crashing around them—again in all eras. Remember?

Two acts; The acting area has reunionites at tables on the floor and young people on the stage. Spots follow the action. Modern clothes.

Other McDonough original plays: Asylum, Fables, Eden, FAUGH, Filiation, Limbo, Mirrors, Plots, Requiem, Roomers, Stages, Stations

See also: Plays About Personal Relationships