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Friendship, Teamwork, And Ambition In Shooting Stars By Molly Newman

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Shooting Stars, written by Molly Newman, is a play about friendship, teamwork, and ambition. There are eight girls that are part of the Indiana Shooting Star basketball team. Their couch is a man named Cassius. The play begins with the girls in a locker room, Christmas week, hours from game time. The girls talk and tease each other. They play basketball differently. They go around and defeat men’s teams, by doing silly distractions and causing the game to go on longer. However, all of the girls are extremely gifted in basketball. Anyways, Cassius leaves the girls to go pick up some food, he leaves Charlene in charge. The other girls don’t seem to like Charlene, she comes off as pushy. So the girls all continue to chat and Charlene goes and

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