In the winter of 2000 — pre-Sept. 11, pre-social-media boom, pre-gay-suicide outbreak — Kansas City’s Coterie Theatre, one of the nation’s leading companies for young audiences, staged the world premiere of a play that has since proven remarkably prescient. In The Wrestling Season, a work commissioned by the Coterie, playwright and author Laurie Brooks explored a number of issues relating to teen identity — principally, how does the rumor mill that seems to run standard in virtually every high school affect the way that young people identify themselves?
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