Speech & Debate (Tcg Edition)

"You might think a play that grapples with serious modern social issues--homophobia, teenage alienation, the limits of online privacy--would have no room for a warbling Abraham Lincoln doing an interpretive dance. But then you might not expect to encounter a piece of theater as ingenious and cannily plotted as Stephen Karam's Speech & Debate. It is a suspenseful tale that fuses keen-eyed civic critique with riotous and even campy humor." - Celia Wren, Washington Post "Hilarious...Speech & Debate's real accomplishment is its picture of the borderland between late adolescence and adulthood, where grown-up ideas and ambition coexist with childish will and bravado...We never feel we're being educated, just immensely entertained." - Caryn James, New York Times "A provocative play...A lot of shows about teens ring inauthentic. Not this one." - Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune "Stephen Karam's savvy comedy is bristling with vitality, wicked humor, terrific dialogue, and a direct pipeli