Listen closely with empathy to what high school students are saying. Based on verbatim words of teenagers. Themes: bullying, revenge, LGBTQ identity and safety, friendship, self-harm, apathy and social justice. Prospect High: Brooklyn explores significant issues that impact students, staff and parents on a daily basis. Each scene begins with a real event that the teenage co-playwrights have experienced. Although the scenes are then fictionalized and the characters face extremes, the root cause of these conditions do exist and impact communities globally. What can you do when you feel you are not being heard or understood?
