Friends Like These

Friends Like These is a stage play written by Gregory Crafts, which premiered in 2009 in North Hollywood, CA. Set in the Spring of 2000, one year after the massacre at Columbine High School, Friends Like These follows the complex relationships between five students at the fictional Piedmont High School, and the circumstances that drive one of them to commit a shooting of their own. Characters Garrett A sullen seventeen-year-old sophomore misfit clad in a black duster, Garrett exists on the fringe of Piedmont High School's social sphere. Constantly antagonized and ostracized, he lives for weekends "camping" with his friends Diz and Bryan, where they escape to Haven, the fantasy world setting of their favorite LARP game.