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IHRAF: Youth Voices

  • The Tank 312 W 36th St New York, NY, 10018 United States (map)

December 8th at 8:30pm




The Games We Play
by Shannon & Stahl
Two young siblings have built a routine of playing card games together but what are they really protecting each other from?



Wilcox Prom 2k13
by Cris Eli Blak
Based on a true story, Wilcox Prom 2k13 tells the story of an interracial couple - Keshawn, the Black school quarterback, and Martha, the white cheerleader - who are seniors at Wilcox County High School in the year 2013. Tied to the true events that year when students from Wilcox County High School in Wilcox County, Georgia, hosted their own integrated prom - not sponsored by parents or school, who at the time maintained their history of throwing a segregated prom. In the play, Martha feels they’ve had a victory, but Keshawn is frustrated by the lack of meaningful change.


Full Moon
by Fleurette Modica
Four nine-year-old girls at summer camp stay up past their bedtime forging bonds over late-night gossip. When one of them returns from an encounter with a boy, the girls must rely on their limited information about sex and pregnancy to make sense of the situation. This play asks audiences to think about the impact on young girls when access to birth control, abortions, and sexual education programs is taken away.



Blackpilled, A Blueprint

by Alex Beige

Blackpilled, A Blueprint is a technique for reassuring a hopeless friend, a refutation of the nihilist worldview underpinning ‘black-pilled’ internet subculture, and an intimate account of digital racism’s lasting effects. We may think we’re immune to propaganda, but no one ever is.



Co-Captains
by Rhys Collins
In Co-Captains, Riley, a non-speaking kid, knows Morse Code to contact aliens — one needs to use Morse Code to contact someone so far away, obviously. Quinn, a speaking kid, knows Morse Code to live on the ocean one day — one needs to use Morse Code to send signals in case the Kraken attacks them, obviously. When they meet, Riley and Quinn bond over wanting to be captains for their respective vessels. But can they combine their interests to captain together?






*Please note that this performance will be presented at the Tank's in-person performance space at 312 W 36th St. All attendees and artists will be required to have a covid vaccination before being admitted to the space. Patrons will also be required to wear masks, when not eating or drinking.