Teenage Playwrights

have to go to private school?

Maybe in Boyslton, MA they do.

The playwriting Lazour brothers went to a private school with a theater department and physical theaters. But! they wrote their plays for their ordinary English class and staged them at the local community theater…in a house.

Do teenage playwrights need to be in a community that does make theater - even if they don’t don the tap shoes themselves? Does it help going to a school with arts on the front page, “aesthetics” in the charter, and “recognition of beauty” in the mission.

The other half of that question is, does it hurt going to a school without a theater program? Can an artist thrive in a school where you have to dig into the pdf’s of a district’s website to find the mention of a drawing class?

The Lazour brothers’ local public school doesn’t have a theater department or any theater classes. No after school theater program, either. I see band, jazz band, chorus and 2 “fine arts” classes. No creative writing listed in the write-ups for the English c…