Reviews & Testimonials
Confronting Taboos
When the lights went up on the stage of the Richard E. Wildish Community Theater on Sunday afternoon, two teenage actors stumbled through a stack of cardboard boxes, acting drunk against the backdrop of a cage-fighting poster with the play’s title as its own: “Winner by Submission.” Read More >
“Winner by Submission” is a riveting and provocative play. It will quickly engage students in the dilemmas teens face as they navigate a world marked by a sexually-saturated pop culture and, too often, inadequate parental guidance and supervision. The best thing about the show is the way it invites young audience members to examine the continuum of characters onstage and ask themselves: “Which one of these people am I? How would I react?”
-Karen Nordling McCowan
KAREN NORDLING MCCOWAN is a member of the Center for Community Counseling Board of Directors and a journalist who has covered youth theater.