Someone snaps a photo that was never meant to be taken. Now every phone in the high school is starting to buzz...
HALL PASS is a gripping, real-time ensemble drama set entirely inside a high school girls’ bathroom, where the ordinary rituals of teenage life - fixing makeup, swapping stories, checking phones - collide with the extraordinary speed of social media. In the span of a single school day, a photo of a popular senior spreads across student phones at lightning speed, transforming private choices into public judgment and forcing a group of young women to confront the power they hold in shaping each other’s stories.
By turns sharp, funny, and deeply unsettling, this fast-moving ensemble drama captures the fragile line between connection and cruelty, asking not just how rumors spread but why we participate in them. The dialogue is quick, funny, and familiar, and captures the rhythm of friendships, insecurities, and social hierarchies in motion. HALL PASS speaks directly to a generation navigating identity in a world where nothing stays private - and everything can define you.
David Overton has given his permission for licensees to cut lines and/or scenes as necessary to meet festival or competition's time requirements without seeking prior approval from Uproar. Lines must still be performed sequentially as written, and words may not be changed or substituted without prior written approval.
