This Is Only a Test tackles the absurdity of active-shooter drills. | kerryreid
, now in a world premiere with Broken Nose Theatre under Toma Tavares Langston’s direction. A John Hughesian quartet of high school students—a nerd, a jock, an overachiever, and an out-of-the-closet gay theater kid—are subjected to the training of a former military dude who’s selling his active-shooter survival “strategies” to schools.
Like Mulaney, Loo seems interested in exploring how early exposure to safety measures that seem to offer precious little protection can scar a kid’s psyche for life. In a program note, Loo writes about seeing a school-shooting drill on a news special. “I couldn’t process what I was looking at right away.It’s all those things, and his play tries to grapple with all of it, to diminishing effect over the two acts.
But Loo never shows us enough of the inner life of these kids for some of the shifts in character to fully make sense. Maybe that’s the point he’s trying to make: we never know what kids are going through, or when one might “snap” under the weight of being asked to deal with adult situations beyond their years.
In Lenore’s case, the shooter drills actually seem to give her a sense of power and agency she lacked before; the girl who could never get cast in school plays starts booking commercials, much to the disgruntlement of Helfrick’s Kramer. But while it’s a funny aside, it feels out of place, as if Loo is saying, “Hey, maybe
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