Speech & Debate (NHB Modern Plays) - Softcover

Hilarious, funny and cliché free, Stephen Karam's dark comedy seems to be about a frumpy girl, a nerdy guy and an openly gay guy who band together to disclose the truth about a teacher who preys on his male students. But that topical plot is almost window dressing. The play's real accomplishment is its picture of the borderland between late adolescence and adulthood, where grown-up ideas and ambition coexist with childish will and bravado. --New York Times

A fiercely funny play by the Tony Award-winning author of The Humans.Three misfit teenagers are brought together by a sex scandal in their school, with nobody taking them seriously until they speak out - with hilarious consequences.Living in a social media minefield, where peers are judgmental and adults are dictatorial and condescending, Howie, Solomon and Diwata grapple with homophobia, online privacy and how to get the lead in the school play.Stephen Karam's Speech & Debate was first performed Off-Broadway at Roundabout Underground in 2007. It receives its UK premiere at the Trafalgar Studios in 2017.