Exercise-2 Fill in the Marks with Free
1. Our Principal
for lunch after the show
2. Our school
parte in the later school Debune
3. We
bome after you finish
4. The Olympics
hands of tourists
for when you come
Answers
Answer:
Background of Play
It’s Our School, Too! is based on the interviews of youth throughout the Minneapolis/St.
Paul Metro Area, in addition to Special Olympics: Youth Activation Committee
members who live across the U.S.
While the events in the play have been changed slightly for staging purposes, all of the
scenes are based on the stories of the youth interviewed. In short, all of these things have
happened and are happening in our schools on a daily basis.
It’s Our School, Too! debuted at the Youth Activation Summit and National Education
Conference, 2010 Special Olympics USA National Games at the Strauss Performing Arts
Center on the University of Nebraska-Omaha Campus. The premiere was directed by
Suzy Messerole, and performed by a cast of 13 youth. This script includes that full
production, plus two additional scenes that directors may choose to include in the play if
they wish.
In 2016, the US-based Project UNIFY was rebranded to Special Olympics Unified Champion
Schools. Under Special Olympics Unified Schools, Unified Champion Schools is a strategy
aimed at promoting social inclusion through intentionally planned and implemented activities
affecting system-wide change within schools and its community.
Performance
The play is written for a cast of 10-20 youth, including youth with and without
intellectual disabilities. The play can be performed on a blank stage, using just chairs, or you
may create an elaborate set.
There are three sections of the play – Opening, the R-Word and Closing, where you can
choose either to use the line suggestions in the script or you may have each actor create a
line themselves, which is more pertinent to who they are.
No additional scenes that are not written by the playwrights may be added to the play.
Selected scenes can be performed but it is preferred that the play be performed in its
entirety.
Acknowledgements
Playwright credit must be given on all printed materials, as well as any publicity of the play
on websites, press releases and any other media. "Written by Suzy Messerole and Aamera
Siddiqui" must be directly under the title of the play.
The following acknowledgement must be given on any programs for a production of the
play:
It’s Our School, Too! was commissioned from Exposed Brick Theatre, a Minneapolis,
Minnesota theatre company, www.exposedbricktheatre.com. The play premiered at the
University of Nebraska, Omaha in July 2010 under the direction of Suzy Messerole, as
part of the 2010 Special Olympics USA National Games. The blog used in the R-Word
Scene was written by Danielle Liebl, a member of the National Youth Activation
Committee from Richmond, Minnesota. It is used with her permission.