Saturday, June 08, 2024 from 02:00pm to 04:00pm
Dallas College Richland Campus, 12800 Abrams Road
PUP Fest is a collaborative program with Junior Players, Kitchen Dog Theater, and Dallas ISD - Playwriting Arts Collective (D-PAC) for high school playwrights, where we bring 6 incredible scripts written by teens to life.
We are very excited to present this year's selection of staged readings on Saturday, June 8 at 2 pm at Dallas College - Richland Campus (12800 Abrams Rd, Dallas, TX 75243). PUP Fest will be performed within the Blackbox theatre: Room F108 in Richland Building F - Fannin Hall. Parking is available in Lot W.
Space is limited, RSVP at juniorplayers.org/RSVP to join us on Saturday, June 8 to support our youth as they showcase their hard work!
About the Plays:
Before You Go by Claire Hood
“I wrote this play to emphasize how the conflicts hidden beneath relationships can lead to inescapable problems and how that build-up guilt and anger can eventually tear lives and friendships apart”
Boy Club by Olivia Stanley
“I wrote this play to explore workplace harassment and how societal pressures and expectations affect men and women in different ways. I chose to explore these topics from the eyes of a child to expose the grave nature surrounding harassment and the willful ignorance of boundaries. My hope was to take a socially relevant topic that needs to be at the forefront of modern advocacy and present it with an experimental, slightly uncomfortable lens”
I Might Have Loved You Once by Viviana Rivera Santiago
“This play was inspired by a chance encounter with an old friend, who had turned into a stranger without me realizing it. As I thought about this encounter, I thought about all of the things I wanted to say but couldn’t, and the difference between what I said to that old friend and what I truly thought or felt. I decided to create this story and write this play based on the juxtaposition between people’s inner thoughts and what is actually said”
It was meant to be by Rebecca Frias
“I wrote this play because I am interested in hearing and viewing love story genres, so I myself was motivated to write a play about a love story”
Like Father Like Daughter by Cindy Robledo
“I wanted to give the audience a closer view of the struggles within a family. Not everything is sunshine and rainbows, and in the story of “Like Father Like Daughter” we see the rollercoaster of a situation that a daughter goes through because of her father.”
Visibility by Chandler McGuire
“I have always wondered how you would explain sight to a blind person. The concept of sight seems so mystical that I wanted to explore a society that has never known it. And, in writing and developing this world, I’ve noticed parallels to our own. The thoughts of the unknown and fear that plague our world, are not unlike the themes I’ve attempted to emulate in this play. And as you watch, I hope you will realize that the world I’ve created is not unlike our own”
