Linden School Students Explore Race, Class, and Privilege in a Student Produced Play

7/7/21— Senior drama students at The Linden School created and performed virtually a stunning new play called Unwritten that explores the complex issues of race, class, and privilege.

This student-led production contains hard-hitting insights into the private world of teenage challenges and friendship. The play follows the stories of 16-year-old Amani, a Nigerian girl, and her new classmates in Toronto as they live through a tumultuous year shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and the intersecting forces of youth, identity, race, culture, geography, and privilege.

“Unwritten amplifies the voices of students who have long resisted marginalization and oppression,” said Linden Drama Teacher Coco Lee. It does so “by challenging students whose identities afford them privileges to face the ways that they can be complicit in oppression.”

Photo Credit: Maddy O’Leary, Grade 8, Linden School