Inspired by 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 their own school.

After a general introduction to the play and the actors, 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, which does not bode well should a routine workshop spiral out of control as alarms jangle nerves and an intruder runs through the halls of the school...

Enjoy the distracted dysfunction of Act I, Part I of this version of Skool Dayz.