Voices From the High School
Voices From the High School is a play that exposes the attitudes, feelings, and issues that high schoolers face. The play is told in short skits with one-shot characters, interspersed with short anecdotes given by nameless characters. Each skit deals with a specific issue, from being the new kid to working to teen pregnancy.
Tropes used in Voices From the High School include:
- Abusive Parents: Larry's dad. He eventually talks to a friend about it.
- Another example is Millie's mother, who gave her alcohol as a young child to "help with naps."
- Adorkable: Kim.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Sheila and Steven
- All Men Are Perverts: Most of the male characters are.
- Badass Biker: Hank wants to be one.
- Big Eater: Freddy "couldn't live without ice cream."
- Buxom Is Better:
Charlie: "What do you think of Annie Harrigan?" |
- Calling the Old Man Out: Larry talks about doing this to his abusive father.
- Camp Straight: Hector
- Chastity Couple: Kim and Miko
- Conversational Troping: the anecdotes.
- Double Entendre: Doug, as well as others.
- Driven to Suicide: Jimmy. The reason is never given, but he gets better.
- Flipping the Bird
- Framing Device: The skits are all separated by short anecdotes by "Group Member."
- Headphones Equal Isolation: played for laughs. Two characters listening to music are having a conversation, but can't tell what each other is saying.
- High School Sweethearts: Kim and Miko
- If I Can't Have You: Andrea and Chris
- Loads and Loads of Roles
- Ordinary High School Student: Almost everybody.
- Mall Santa
- Men Are Uncultured: Discussed.
- Motor Mouth: "Ever try to follow a girl's conversation? If she's excited it's like chasing a paper in a windstorm; just when you think you got the point she's sixteen feet over your head and whirling in a spiral."
- The Power of Trust: Maria and Rosa.
- Sadist Teacher: Also discussed.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Jerry decides to imitate Shakespeare.
- Shout-Out: One character says, "I had a girlfriend that told me she thought all teachers should be like that character Kotter on TV."
- The Stoner: Doug
- Stylistic Suck: Ellen's singing.
- Take That: Harry really dislikes Othello.
- Tastes Like Friendship: When Stephen and Sheila meet, he eventually persuades her to get ice cream with him.
- Teen Pregnancy: Rosa.
- That Cloud Looks Like...: Hank and Charlie.
- The Cheerleader: Deconstructed.
- Totally Radical: Unfortunately the fate of this play as it ages.
- TV Teen: Played with. While a few skits portray the stereotypical teen, others go in depth and show realistic teenagers. The play is also popular with high school drama clubs.
- Understatement:
Roger enters with a giant Valentine. |
- Valentine's Day: Played for Drama.
- Yandere: Andrea
"Yeah, I know. the jerk's waiting. So go. I haven't got a gun. Yet." |