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| Each semester students enrolled in Social Action Theater write, revise, and
perform skits that are tailored to the audience we are performing for. We write and perform skits to inform the audience of everyday examples of racism, sexism,
homosexuality, and a variety of other prejudicial attitudes. The skits have a main issue but are rewritten many times to be applied to
various situations. Although every skit in its entirety cannot be shown;
below are summaries of the more popular ones.
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| Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes | |
| The characters are a
teacher, a brown-eyed student and a blue-eyed student. Both of the
students missed class the day before and approach the teacher for the
missing assignment. The teacher gives the missed assignment to the
brown-eyed student, but not to the blue-eyed one. The teacher justified
her action by saying the blue-eyed student is lazy because she is
frequently absent due to her home situation and many times stays home
from school to baby-sit her younger sibling.
This skit is a role reversal. Typically, the brown-eyed people, or African-Americans get discriminated against, and the blue-eyed or White people get off easy. Is this fair???
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| One Legged Wonder | |
| Tryouts for the girls basketball
team are tonight. Cassandra, the new girl in school, is trying for a
spot on the team. The girls know one person will be cut and after
finding out that Cassandra has a prosthetic leg because of an injury
suffered from car accident, they are certain her name will not be on the
roster.
Cassandra is just as talented as the other girls on the team, and it is up to the coach to decide who will be wearing the jerseys at the first game. Who will he chose and why?
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| Math Problems | |
| Is a skit on sincerity. About how
honest and truthful a person is. The setting is a Middle School and four
members of the "cool" group are thinking of ways to get the
math homework that is due for today. Then Katie walks by, Katie happens
to be the teachers pet and always has her homework done. It's up to
Mike, the ladies man, to talk her into giving him his homework. It
works, Katie gives him the homework and he lets the "cool"
group copy it. They all get A's on their homework.
Will Katie ever find out she is being used? Does Mike follow through with his end of the deal, after all, he invited Katie to a party. And if Katie finds out, what will she do?
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| A Black Thanksgiving | |
| It's Thanksgiving Dinner and your
son or daughter, who has been away at college since September, brought
home his or her significant other who happens to be of another race.
This is the scenario of A Black Thanksgiving. Jenny brought Mike home to
meet the family. The family doesn't know much about Mike other than that
he attends St. John's Academy together and that Mike makes Jenny
extremely happy. Jenny never told her family that Mike is black.
Lets see how Jenny's family reacts to meeting Mike for the first time. |
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