‘Ripe Frenzy,’ a play about a school shooting, provokes thought with lyricism and restraint

What inspires a play?

For “Ripe Frenzy,” a new drama about a school shooting, the genesis included:

The quintessentially American play “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder;

The manifestoes and other documentation that mass shooters have left behind;

The memoir “A Mother’s Reckoning” by Sue Klebold, mother…