RIPE FRENZY takes place in Tavistown, N.Y. – a small, fictionalized town in upstate New York where the local high school holds the Guinness World Record for the most productions of Thornton Wilder's American classic, Our Town. On opening night of the school’s 40th production, a student opens fire on his classmates before turning the gun on himself, and members of the community are left to grapple with a radically new understanding of life in the town they have always called home. Time is slippery as the play submerges us in the before, during, and after of the shooting, using Our Town as a framework to examine what has become our new American norm. Told from the perspective of the mothers of the town, the play questions our own culpability in the perpetuation of mass shootings in our country.