The budding actors of Tampa, Florida’s King High School might do their school proud with their performance of Bang, Bang, You’re Dead, a play about a student who shoots up his school. They were good enough to make it into the Florida State Thespians Competition for their district, but when it came to performing for the rest of the students, administrators thought it in everyone’s best interest to ban the play. “It was a sensitive subject,” said principal David Steele. “Even in a situation where the moral of the story is a good one.”

In the play, written by William Mastrosimone, a student kills five classmates, and a series of flashbacks and visits from the victims show the severity of what he’s done. Teachers and parents of the actors attended an invitation-only performance.

Steele said allowing the students to perform the play at competition while banning it for the student body was a “reasonable solution.” :

» Scott Saxon