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Rehearsal

An LA based film about how a generation has learned to cope with the reality of school shootings.

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Rehearsal is a short film exploring the devastating effects of gun violence on a group of California high school students. When a group of students at La Dana Preparatory hears the news of a shooting at a local private school, they devise a disturbing performance as a vehicle for catharsis and agency. Every Friday, Ms. Murphy and her students rehearse a mock school shooting, their roles and blocking choreographed with chilling precision. After the school board finds out, they send in an interrogator to question the class. This is where we meet them. Without gratuitous violence, Rehearsal reveals how privilege, race, and gender complicate the traumatic effects of gun violence and who stereotypically gets labeled victim, perpetrator, and martyr. Rehearsal began as a short play by Willa Colleary. It received readings at prominent regional theaters across the country and won the ENOUGH Plays to End Gun Violence Award in 2020. Willa joined former cast member Torianna Turnbow and early-career director Jamie Gallo to adapt the play for the screen.