From Up Here

by Liz Flahive

4m, 4f / Dramatic Comedy Kenny Barrett did something that has everyone worried. He wishes he could just make it through the rest of his senior year unnoticed, but that's going to be hard since he has to publicly apologize to his entire high school. At home, his mother is struggling with a rocky start to her second marriage and a surprise visit from her estranged sister. A new play about a family limping out the door in the morning and coming home no matter what. Nominated for the 2008 Drama De

Genres: Plays, Theatre

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[carenza · Rating 5 out of 5]

i finally got around to reading this full script after doing a scene from it in class last year! i really love how the dialogue is written it just feels so real and natural and like it would flow so nicely for the actors to perform. i want to play lauren so bad please someone cast me in your production of this play. there’s some really awesome monologues in this show too!! i might steal and try out using the one where charlie confesses his feelings post-song.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

The way I would describe it is meh. It isn't necessarily bad, but it felt like it ended ubruptly and if I had not had a little background before hand I would have been lost as to what was happening. It felt a little week just in general. There were some cute parts though.

[Cooper · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an interesting read. It had a subject matter of which I was surprised to see and I throughly enjoyed the way it told the story it was trying to tell!

[Taylor Hudson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liz Flahive brings a nuance and delicacy to a heavy and extremely relevant subject matter. Her naturalistic dialogue builds an extremely relatable family dynamic and charm that has you rooting for every character in the play, despite their flaws.