Makin' It
by Cynthia Mercati

Makin' It is a story of people high school students interact with daily.

Yes, there are the jocks, the nerds, the popular girls, but none of them are stereotypes.

This is a play about the ordinary kids you see walking down any hallway in any school.

A good kid, a bit baffled by high school, but trying his or her best to make it through.

There's the girl who wants desperately to look like the models in Seventeen, and the football player who must protect his mother and sister from his father's wrath.

There's the girl who lost weight, yet when she looks in the mirror, it's the old self she sees.

There's the guy who always lands in detention, who has a surprising warmth for the other "misfit" students, and the principal who tries his best to navigate the ever shifting changes of young people.

There's Monica, too innocent to know when a cruel practical joke is being played on her, and there's Libby, the girl who tries to keep her intellectual bent a secret, afraid no one will like "a smart girl."

And there's the rich kid, who finds out his money will buy neither real friendship or loyalty.

Yet, for all their travails, the kids come to understand their own inner difficulties and how, truly they are all the same, searching both to understand and accept themselves, as they strive to make it through four years of high school.

At the heart of Makin' It are a number of monologues in which characters step out of the action to address their thoughts to the audience.