Students in the CAP / Plaza de la Raza Theater Program explore bullying in the play "Life is a Dream" ("La Vida es Sueño"). (Scott Groller)
Los Angeles-area teenagers are taking the crusade against bullying to the stage. Their play, an adaptation of the 17th century Spanish classic "Life is a Dream" ("La Vida es Sueño") by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, takes the action into a modern high school setting and uses students' experiences with bullying to explore how it affects kids....Guest playwright Sarah Louise Wilson led the 47 students, who range in age from 11 to 18, in a series of writing exercises about bullying. She asked whether they'd been bullied, and whether they'd bullied other people. Everyone had a story to write, Wilson said -- and she took those stories and incorporated them into the adaptation. When the curtain rises, the hero of the play is being picked on by other kids. He becomes popular and starts bullying others, and is eventually humbled himself.
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