Zap by Paul FleischmanCandlewick Press, 2005

A play written for high-schoolers that seems like it’d be loads of fun to put on, especially for theatre-kids who are familiar with the conventions of the stage, who’ve acted in a Chekov play or a murder mystery, who had to read something by Tennessee Williams for English class, who’ve maybe read some Beckett or Ionesco or Sartre. The conceit is that a (fictional) audience is switching from play to play (each one a differen genre) like they’re flipping through the channels on television, but of course, things go awry (and nobody, alas, wants to watch Shakespeare).