As You Were

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February 11, 2006

Funny

Probably best to avoid the flyover states, I think, if you want to be a highschool Drama teacher. Where do they find these people?

For the moment, Dr. Enderle acknowledged, the controversy has shrunk the boundaries of what is acceptable for the community. He added that "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was "not a totally vanilla play."

But asked if the high school might put on another Shakespeare classic about young people in love, "Romeo and Juliet," he hesitated.

"Given the historical context of the play," the superintendent said, "it would be difficult to say that's something we would not perform."

Posted by coughlin at 1:30 AM | Comments (1)
Comments

There's something in a Spalding Gray book called Impossible Summer that reminds me of this. The protagonist does a peforming art piece in a school in the midwest with 10 people in leotards climbing all over each other until the actors and the organizers are all fired.

I'm not sure why anyone shoudl care about this minor fact.

Posted by: ben at February 11, 2006 9:04 AM