THE COLLECTED RULES OF GIFTED CAMP

THE BRICK THEATER, BROOKLYN

Since their origins in the early 1980's, academic summer programs for gifted teenagers have proliferated across the United States, and indeed around the world. Fueled by an increasingly competitive college admissions process, easy access to standardized qualifying tests, and parental anxiety over children's future career prospects, these programs capitalize as well on teens' longstanding desires to escape from adult supervision and suburban boredom. The Collected Rules of Gifted Camp explores the way these new trends collide with and transform the traditional American pastime of summer camp.

Written by Valerie Work

Directed by Annie Tippe

with Hollis Beck, Andrew Butler,

Lena Hudson + Ryann Weir

Set Design: Tyler Mercer

Costume Design: Eleot Reich

Lighting Design: Juliet Smith

Sound Design: Eric Biel

Photos by Sasha Arutyunova