# Stupid Kids

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| writer     = John C. Russell
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| characters = Judy Noonan<br>Jim Stark<br>John "Neechee" Crawford<br>Jane "Kimberly" Willis
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| premiere   = {{Start date|1998|08|25}} 
| place      = [Century Center for the Performing Arts](/source/Century_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts)<br>[New York City](/source/New_York_City)
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'''''Stupid Kids''''' is a play by '''John C. Russell''' (1963–1994),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/01/magazine/lives-well-lived-john-c-russell-he-who-dances.html?ref=johncrussell&gwh=BA188C5584B9D03870DE24C3DA7944B7 |title=Lives Well Lived: John C. Russell; He Who Dances |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date=January 1, 1995 |access-date=June 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307072013/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/01/magazine/lives-well-lived-john-c-russell-he-who-dances.html?ref=johncrussell&gwh=BA188C5584B9D03870DE24C3DA7944B7 |archive-date=March 7, 2016}}</ref> first published by [Dramatists Play Service](/source/Dramatists_Play_Service), Inc. of [New York](/source/New_York_City),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/27/obituaries/john-c-russell-playwright-31.html |title=Obituary: John C. Russell; Playwright, 31 |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date=April 27, 1994 |access-date=June 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526110804/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/27/obituaries/john-c-russell-playwright-31.html |archive-date=May 26, 2015}}</ref> and first performed in 1991. Very similar in tone, plot, and characters to the film [Rebel Without a Cause](/source/Rebel_Without_a_Cause), the play follows four students at [Joe McCarthy](/source/Joseph_McCarthy) High.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9f07e0de143df936a25755c0a96e958260 |title=THEATER REVIEW; The Churning World of High School Fantasies |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date=June 15, 1998 |first=Peter |last=Marks |access-date=June 28, 2012}}</ref>

Subsequent to its New York run, it played in [Seattle](/source/Seattle%2C_Washington) and [Boston](/source/Boston%2C_Massachusetts).

==Plot==
Jim has a crush on Judy and Judy's boyfriend Buzz is a popular jock. After a police raid on a [rave](/source/rave), Jim makes friends with Neechee (a fey kid who has nicknamed himself after [Nietzsche](/source/Friedrich_Nietzsche)) while Judy befriends punkish [riot grrrl](/source/riot_grrrl) Kimberly. As Jim and Judy pursue each other through the unpleasant social procedures of high school, abandoning their rebellious nature in favor of comfortable conformity, Neechee and Kimberly fall unhappily in love with them—Neechee with Jim, Kimberly with Judy. Ultimately, their experience alienates them even further from the mainstream, and from the objects of their affection.

==Characters==
*Jim Stark - a masculine, disaffected and apparently rebellious teenager who is new in town and intrigued by Judy
*Judy Noonan - a feminine, provocative, and apparently rebellious teenager who is intrigued by Jim
*John "Neechee" Crawford - a young gay outcast who is desperately in love with Jim
*Jane "Kimberly" Willis - a young gay outcast who is desperately in love with Judy

==References==
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==External links==
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Category:1991 plays
Category:American plays

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