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By Elizabeth Elving<\/p>\n

The theater is a place to ask questions, and the writers in this year\u2019s Young Playwrights Festival weren\u2019t afraid to tackle some of the biggest ones head-on. The four winning entries of Pegasus Theatre Chicago\u2019s<\/a> annual high school competition just closed their run at Chicago Dramatists<\/a> in River West under the title \u201cSomething Wicked Interferes.\u201d While vastly different in subject, all four used the surreal and supernatural as tools to chip away at the veneer of everyday life.<\/p>\n

In \u201cA Matter of Life (& Maybe Death)” by Deja Jenkins, a coma-stricken teen plays cards with the grim reaper. In Daisianee Minenger\u2019s \u201cDare to be Different,\u201d a child-like narrator uses nursery rhymes to tell a story of gang politics in Detroit. Taylor Vazquez\u2019s \u201cDirty Spoons\u201d is a trenchant spoof of reality TV. And in Steve Maloy\u2019s \u201cA Day at the Office,\u201d an advertising executive considers selling his soul to the devil (a sharp-dressed charmer who informs him that both Heaven and Hell are owned by Halliburton).<\/p>\n

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\u201cI didn\u2019t think anything I wrote could ever come out like that. It\u2019s been crazy, I loved it,\u201d said Jenkins, a senior at Whitney Young Magnet High School, after a performance.<\/p>\n

The plays were written as a class requirement, but entering the YPF was optional. Producing Artistic Director Ilesa Duncan said the competition helps focus the students and \u201corient them towards a goal.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The set of “A Matter of Life (& Maybe Death)” at the Young Playwrights Festival at Chicago Dramatists. (Elizabeth Elving\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The YPF, now in its 28th<\/sup> year, is one of the country\u2019s longest-running contests for young playwrights. Other Chicago theaters have since begun using competitions to encourage new talent, and it\u2019s not just the winners who benefit from the results.<\/p>\n

Pride Films & Plays<\/a> was founded in 2010 with the goal of advancing LGBT performing arts in Chicago. The company holds several competitions throughout the year, including the Great Gay Play and Musical Contest, which accepts only anonymous submissions of previously unproduced work.<\/p>\n

Winners of the Great Gay Play and Musical Contest get to work with professionals to put their words onstage. Artistic Associate Nelson Rodriguez said younger writers often need help with basics like play structure. But the topics they choose to address reveal what issues most concern the next generation of LGBT youth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re moving past the coming out story. We\u2019re moving past the AIDS play. Now I\u2019ve noticed a lot of scripts tackling marriage equality,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cI\u2019m still looking for the first great gay divorce play. I\u2019d love to read that, and I hope it\u2019s a comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rodriguez may soon get his wish. This year Pride Films & Plays launched Generation Next, a competition for high school, college, and graduate students. Winning entries will be staged, and Rodriguez said they are lucky to have an audience that will happily buy tickets to shows they know nothing about.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the Chicago audience is more receptive of new work and experimental work. They\u2019re more willing to open their mind and share their evening with something that\u2019s out of their comfort zone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

That openness got the attention of\u00a0Red Theater<\/a>, which was founded in Nebraska and began a Chicago collective in 2012. The original members were kicked out of the University of Nebraska following an especially subversive performance. Founder Aaron Sawyer is not apologizing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did immature things, as college students will do, provocative things. We were experimenting with the boundaries of what theater can do,\u201d Sawyer said. \u201cThat youthful idealism is what the theater needs in order to be theatrical.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The closing set of the Young Playwrights Festival at Chicago Dramatists with the playwrights’ photos projected on the back wall. (Elizabeth Elving\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Red Theater\u00a0also hosts an annual playwriting competition. As with YPF and Generation Next, winners will get to see their play performed. While the Red Theater Playwriting Competition imposes no age restrictions, Sawyer said that as a new company they tend to attract younger writers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe young voice is the one that doesn\u2019t calculate and is more pure. They\u2019re following their instincts. The young voice is the most powerful voice for that reason,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sawyer wasn\u2019t speaking of the Young Playwrights Festival, but he could have been. Each one of the plays in \u201cSomething Wicked Interferes\u201d packed a punch. They pushed past the familiar into the absurd and kept pushing until they found something redemptive. They did what theater is meant to do, while offering the rare chance to witness something truly original.<\/p>\n

Today, the teenage attention span is dominated by the latest gadgets and apps. But the fundamentals of theater have hardly budged in the last thousand years. Competitions like the YPF motivate young artists to help keep that tradition alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big thing for them is that somebody\u2019s listening,\u201d Duncan said, \u201cBecause what they write is what they\u2019re thinking. And they need to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Red Theater’s “Red Hamlet” (David Darrow\/Courtesy of Red Theater)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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