On Valentine’s Day 2018, a nineteen-year-old boy walked into his former high school in Florida with an assault rifle. He killed fourteen students, three teachers, and injured seventeen more. Some of the worst damage was done when he shot into a Holocaust history class as students were studying hate crimes. Room 1214 is based on interviews with the real-life teacher of that class – who was in the room that fateful day. The play imagines what would happen if she had one more chance to teach in that classroom, and her students got a final say. It begs the question, “Can a history teacher rewrite history?”

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PlayLab 2024 : Room 1214

Arcade Theatre

Joshua shares a singular bond with his luminous grandmother, the woman who introduced him to Medea, Mapplethorpe, and Broadway, and set him on the path to becoming a playwright. In this deeply funny and moving love letter to complicated families, Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Prayer for the French Republic) unravels thirty years of family history, with a little Rashomon-style assistance from his mother.

Patti Gardner

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Jan 22 - Feb 14, 2027

We Had a World · GableStage

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May 5, 2024

PlayLab 2024 : Room 1214 · Florida Repertory Theatre

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