Beck Center for the Arts

Speech & Debate

Studio Theater Written by Stephen Karam. Presented in arrangement with Dramatist Play Service Three misfit high school students in Salem, Oregon form a unique debate club, complete with a musical version of The Crucible, an unusual podcast, and a plot to take down their corrupt drama teacher. With his signature wit, playwright Karam follows the trio's attempts to fend off the menace of encroaching adulthood with edgy humor and subversive antics.

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