{"id":6172,"date":"2017-12-28T21:59:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T21:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=6172"},"modified":"2025-01-15T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T13:39:22","slug":"now-i-lay-me-down-to-sleep-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=6172","title":{"rendered":"Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep — play"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>by Jerry Walker<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

(A must for any group \u2013 professional, amateur and educational, performing for families and teens. A perfect play for High Schools and Youth Theatres.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

They are called the best four years of our lives…and they are, but that four year trek is also dangerous and confusing. You will find all of the things that young people, especially high school students, need to know, want to ask, get stressed-out about and complain about. Between the familiar items of teen angst and adolescence will come those moments of pleasant memory, deep identity, shocking surprise, and utter devastation, as your onstage \u2018child\u2019 reaches out for comfort, help, direction\u2013\u2013approval; wanting to belong to something\/someone. The scenes and monologues in this on-target theatrical, will have you laughing one second and crying for …well, a considerable length of time. The play is about teens and how each action performed, or word spoken by anyone has either a positive or negative effect on someone else, even oneself, and we come to find out that no word or deed is harmless or without consequence. Adults and youth alike, will see themselves in the halls of this school, in the lives of its students; in both the hopes, and the shattered dreams of high-schoolers not so very different from those adults in their lives around them who have walked this path before in a slightly different era but with all the manifestations of expectation, desire, dreams, and despair that haunted them. This is one fine and timeless play.<\/p>\n

Northern Maine One Act Play Festival (1st Place), 1997<\/p>\n

This 90 minute play will soon be available in an approved\u00a0 40 minute version for High School competitions.<\/p>\n

It also has a great selection of monologues for in-class\/workshop work and competition performance.\u00a0 (Buy a single copy of the book, below)<\/p>\n

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PLAY DETAILS (Full-Length)
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