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This play takes a dramatic look at the issues underlying teen suicide. Suicide is the long process of a person's heart and spirit collapsing in on itself. In an effort to protect themselves a person can begin to build and allow emotional and spiritual barriers to come between themselves, others and God. Eventually, having nowhere to turn but inside, a person believes themselves to be truly alone. This play is the story of one teens journey down that road.
Lizzy is a very talented, very intelligent and popular teenage girl. She has everything going for her and a bright future as she seems destined to be a young star at a prestigious school for the Arts. What no one can seem to see however is how empty she feels. As she struggles to give the people around her a glimpse into her heart, her well meaning family and friends put up emotional barriers with their words and actions. In the end, Lizzy finds it easier to embrace those barriers than to try and break through them.
Although this play takes the story to the extreme end (attempted suicide) most every member of the audience will find themselves somewhere in the progression of the story as Lizzy makes the journey of embracing the barriers that keep her captive.
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