Dumb Kids

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Dumb Kids is a contemporary queer commentary on Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, asking why do we always tell queer kids it’ll get better but never that it’ll get good. Set over the course of a year it follows a group of ten Australian school students planning their year eleven formal and their intermixing journeys of discovering their sexualities, gender and how to grow up in a world where everyone seems to have already figured it out. Raucously funny and unflinching, Dumb Kids is a celebration of community, friendship and identity.

Form/Style: comedy, drama, large cast
Length in minutes: 100
Cast: 9 total
Roles: 5 female identifying, 4 male identifying
Themes: adolescence, alienation, belonging, bullying, gender, growing up, identity, inclusion, lgbtqia+, sexuality, queer
Cast age groups: 16 to 18, 18+
Content warnings: adult language, bullying, child abuse, sexual abuse
Has interval: yes
Audience age: adult, all ages, teen
Publisher: Australian Plays Transform

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