OUR FAKE HISTORY
by Nora Louise Syran
TRUE or FALSE?*
1) Vikings wore horns
2) Napoleon was short
3) Marie Antoinette said “let them eat cake”
History comes alive as students learn that fake news is old news and disinformation can be disastrous. With the school principal waiting for the slightest excuse to fire the students’ favorite teacher, Mr Parker, and Charlotte Locus manipulating the media to become Student Council President, will the students learn from the past or will they be doomed to repeat it? A trope-filled, historical myth-busting comedy, with a couple of songs thrown in.
*FALSE!
- Cast Size: 6M 10W 1M/W (Flexible ensemble casting)
- Running Time: 90+ minutes
- Royalty Rate: $75 per performancxe
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About the Playwright
Nora is a first generation Norwegian-American writer and a teacher of literature, theatre arts and music which has allowed her to travel, write and produce plays and, above all, learn from her students the world over. She is a member of the SACD (Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques) and the Dramatists Guild. She studied under poet Brigit Pegeen Kelly at the University of Illinois. www.noralouisesyran.com
Her play ELLIS ISLAND AHEAD! is available with Eldridge Plays and Musicals and her monologue THERE ARE NO CLOSETS IN MY CLASSROOM can be found in the Smith and Kraus anthology WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters. Her play THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN FRANCE will be published by Next Stage Press in March. Her first 10 minute play WALKING WARM was a semi-finalist in the TASN’s 2021 Annual Short Play Festival and her first teleplay SPELLBOUND HORSES earned her Second Prize from the Central Illinois Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters in 1993.
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