The Baltimore Sun called School Shooter "carefully crafted and elegantly written." The playwright received a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council for this drama.
It is a rainy Monday morning in a noisy high school hallway. Four teenagers are venting about classes, parents, friends and the opposite sex when a gunman opens fire - and we move from adolescent angst to tragedy. Teachers scurry to crisis stations and the scene shifts as a hospital nurse struggles to answer frantic parents facing their worst nightmare.
When the shooter pleads guilty but mentally ill to murder charges, the families of the slain students sue not only him, but his parents, his teachers, the principal, his friends and the entertainment companies that produced the movies he watched and the games that he played. Ultimately the case against all the defendants except the shooter is thrown out.
The parents of the dead kids are left with the realization that no one truly understands what they lost that rainy morning in a high school hallway.
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