

The Why
Victor Kaufold
THE STORY: Video games, violent movies, Marilyn Manson, the Internet, Prozac, or fame?
What moves a teenager to cross the line and become a high-school shooter?
More importantly, how do we stop it?
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lax Morales is l
"John Buffalo Mailer's HELLO HERMAN is a powerful and important work, a darkly brilliant tone poem about America's tango with violence and fame. Herman will get under your skin. He may even follow you home. What is certain is you won't soon forget him. Go see HELLO HERMAN.“ —Sam Kashner, Vanity Fair. ”HELLO HERMAN is what theater is supposed to be: relevant, powerful and fearless. I walked away thinking about the state of our country, the state of our youth, the state of our media, and the twisted glitz and cheap plastic that is (barely) holding together the blood and guts of the American condition. HELLO HERMAN needs to be seen in high schools, colleges, community theaters, and on street corners across this country. It needs to be held up as a mirror so that we see what we've become—a society that possesses so much potential, but like the wasted youth in the play, is sentencing itself to death before it ever even started to live."
— Jason Flores Williams
Hello Herman is a American play written by John Buffalo Mailer and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2010).
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