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From Walter Dean Myers, the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, comes this 20-page one-act play. Tags is a look at life and death in New York City, complete with a shocking end.
Four New York City teens are shot down in the prime of life. They move through limbo, re-creating their distinctive tags in a Harlem walk-up so that they can "live" forever. But what's the point? How can you think of living forever if you're already dead?
Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers was the New York Times bestselling author of Monster, the winner of the first Michael L. Printz Award; a former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature; and an inaugural NYC Literary Honoree. Myers received every single major award in the field of children's literature. He was the author of two Newbery Honor Books and six Coretta Scott King Awardees. He was the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, a three-time National Book Award Finalist, as well as the first-ever recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Tags - Walter Dean Myers
Contents
Players
Excerpt from Darius & Twig
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Back Ads
About the Author
Books by Walter Dean Myers
Copyright
About the Publisher
PLAYERS
Big Eddie
Jones, 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . smoke
Willie Jimenez, 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-soon/121
D’Mario Thompson, 16. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .datruf
Frank Watkins, 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .J-Boy
We are in the present time. The play opens on a dingy urban hallway in some dingy urban city. There is a door at stage right. To the left of the hallway, next to stairs that go up at a steep angle, we see BIG EDDIE, a young African American male, writing his tag on the wall. From somewhere a radio is playing, and we hear an ANNOUNCER talking about the wonders of the oldies.
The light flickers occasionally, giving the set an eerie feeling. The radio gets randomly louder, then softer. BIG EDDIE works hard at his tag, which is the letters spelling out smoke sitting on a bed of flames. Throughout the play, the teenagers work on their tags.
The door at stage right opens and WILLIE appears. He looks around and is momentarily startled by BIG EDDIE.
WILLIE
Yo, what’s happening?
BIG EDDIE
Same old same old. Ain’t nobody much in this building.
WILLIE
Do it count?
BIG EDDIE
Yeah, we still tagging, man. We still tagging. You got more paint?
WILLIE
Enough. (He starts putting his tag on the wall. His tag reads 2-soon/121.)
BIG