Inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, an absurdist play about the rise of fascism, my Skool Daze is an absurdist tragicomedy about teachers and students getting distracted by all sorts of things, effectively putting blinders on to a real threat, in this case an armed intruder or two in the school.

Daze opens with a faculty meeting where administrators head a workshop on protocol for the event of an armed intruder. Things do not quite go as planned in the simulation and the faculty are not quite as attentive as they should be and are easily distracted by this and that.

Yet nothing is quite what it seems...