Synopsis
How to Be a Successful Teenager
Published by Samuel French Inc
Large Mixed Cast
Life sure was easier when all they needed to know were words like run, sat, saw, and ate!
But now a new three-letter word has arrived - SEX - and nothing is the same!
Their lives are cast into a nightmarish game show where they are tested on their partner's sexual history
They have to cram for Popularity 101, and the teacher is tough!
A party invites itself over their house while their parents are away... and a policeman crashes the party!
And when they're unfairly grounded, the siblings learn from a cosmic Judge that the PTO is actually a underground organization that has organized parents world-wide into total domination of their children
When it seems there is no hope, Jane finally realizes that the only way to get through high school is to be your own person and to have faith that maybe, someday, it will be over
Winner of the 1998 Baker's Plays High School Playwriting Contest