Huntington Theatre to Present Know the Law! By and For Boston Teens

Huntington Theatre will present Know the Law!, a play written for and performed by Boston teenagers, to be presented at Jamaica Plain’s English High School on June 19 at 7pm.

The Huntington’s Education Department developed Know the Law! 11 years ago and now runs the program as a collaborative effort with Youth and Police in Partnership (YPP). The 45-minute show is comprised of real-life vignettes of potentially compromising situations that teens might experience in their own neighborhoods and depicts the consequences of making the right and wrong choices. Know the Law! tours Boston community centers, high schools, and middle schools.

Each year a group of 25 teenaged peer leaders hired by YPP receive free acting training and direction over six months from the Huntington teaching artists with whom they work to mount the touring production. Beyond the coaching that they receive in acting and speech, this group of Boston students participate in writing and vocabulary programs and work collaboratively with the Huntington’s teaching artists to improve and update the production.

For more information, visit huntingtontheatre.org.