Class of the Living Dead

a comedy in one act

Mr. Nunn teaches English. Mr. Nunn teaches Our Town. Mr. Nunn teaches Our Town to reluctant adolescents; but with chameleon-like intellects, these would-be scholars read much more (and less) into the play than Thornton Wilder ever intended. 

As the class plods through Our Town, Grover’s Corners becomes a surreal New Orleans, and its citizens offer a perverted interpretation of a missing-person case that the class is involved with. Just as the students think they have resolved the mystery, the ghost of Thornton Wilder can’t take it anymore. He holds Mr. Nunn’s class hostage, and Our Town is declared off-limits to all borderline-literates and adolescent troglodytes. 

Despite being exasperated with his students, Mr. Nunn defends their right to try. Wilder protests, but Nunn prevails; and the students are brought back to life and to class with a new assignment—Hamlet, Prince of Tijuana.