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Fierce and True
A collection of plays written for teenage audiences from the leading theater for young people and families in North America.
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The Face of America
The world of young people in the U.S. today is exhilaratingly global. With that, however, comes the need for children to retain confidence in their heritage while empathizing with people who might seem very different. The protagonists of these four plays—written for the world-renowned Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis—strive to achieve that balance with determination, love, and humor.
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Randomized Trial of a Sexual Health Video Intervention for Black and Hispanic Adolescent Females
Despite significant declines, adolescent birth rates in the USA are higher than other industrialized countries, with black and Hispanic youth disproportionately affected. This study assessed the efficacy of a single-session, entertainment-education sexual health video intervention for these populations. Using an individual-level randomized controlled trial, 1770 18- to 19-year-old black and Hispanic females were assigned to watch Plan A (n = 886) or a control video (n = 884) prior to a sexual reproductive health (SRH) visit. Participants self-reported data at baseline and 3 months post-baseline. Within an intent-to-treat framework, we estimated the average causal effect of assignment to Plan A on three confirmatory and five exploratory outcomes. We found that individuals assigned to Plan A had higher contraceptive knowledge, may be more likely to get sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing, and may have elevated HIV/STI risk perceptions 3 months post-video. Although we found no difference in long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) use nor frequency of condomless sex in the full sample, we did observe that first-time SRH visitors assigned to Plan A had a higher probability of using LARC than those in the control group. This study demonstrates that Plan A is a low-burden, inexpensive, and highly scalable video intervention for black and Hispanic adolescent females that has significant and borderline significant effects on protective sexual health behaviors and important antecedents. It adds to the evidence base of effective teen pregnancy prevention programs and the limited set of rigorous and causal studies investigating the effectiveness of entertainment-education interventions on sexual risk reduction. Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03238313) on August 3, 2017.
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Malarkey Match
Jones shares her experience of being a parent. During an ordinary fall season, parents would come to watch his school's theater put on their usual Shakespearean adaptation with a twist. That year, however, the pandemic threw them a curveball, resulting in the development of an original play based on the writings of Alexandre Dumas and the events occurring in 2020. Her child was one of the lead writers. She stood tearfully and applauded until her hands were ruby at a face-masked cast that eloquently performed a piece connecting our universal struggles. When the play ended, her son fawned all over her, proud to introduce his social justice mother to his fellow students and teachers who had used this piece of art to have difficult conversations in a safe school environment. She's proud to say she had still not embarrassed her son.
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Rise Up, Get Tested, and Live: an Arts-Based Colorectal Cancer Educational Program in a Faith-Based Setting
Engaging community members in efforts to reduce cancer-related health disparities through community mini-grant programs has been shown to have meaningful impact. A predominantly African-American church in South Carolina was awarded a community mini-grant to increase awareness about colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among disproportionally high-risk African-American communities through culturally appropriate arts-based cancer education. The church’s pastor, health and wellness ministry, and drama ministry created a theatrical production called Rise Up, Get Tested, and Live. Over 100 attendees viewed the play. A pre/post-test evaluation design assessed the effectiveness of the production in increasing participants’ knowledge about CRC and examined their intentions to be screened. Results showed increased knowledge about CRC, increased awareness and understanding about the importance of CRC screening, and favorable intentions about CRC screening. Findings suggest that arts-based cancer education may be an effective tool for the dissemination of information about CRC screening.
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Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie
Reconsidering tropes such as the male juvenile delinquent figure, the makeover and the teen vampire, the book uses a series of detailed case studies to provide an innovative overview of the Hollywood teen movie and its construction of teen identity.
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On Letting The Outsiders In: Will Grayson, Will Grayson and the Lonely Work of Individuation in Young Adult Literature
In Will Grayson, Will Grayson, co-authors John Green and David Levithan at once stage and refuse an adherence to the long-standing youthful outsider trope in young adult fiction. By employing a multivocal narrative mode that doesn’t rest with an individual protagonist and offering a metafictional commentary on adolescent growth through Tiny Cooper’s autobiographical play, the authors dramatize a movement toward solidarity and invite the reader to question the commonly held assumption that individuation necessitates detachment.
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