I am set to begin directing a shortened version of Hamlet in two weeks at a middle school here in Colorado Springs. I edited the script myself down to a managable 1-hour long production removing anything that might be too strong of content for 11-13 year olds. Now the school says that Shakespeare works in general are not appropriate in schools! Really? This is a charter school that has the term "Classical education" in their mission statement. I'm appalled. GAH! Banning classical literature makes me a tad angry. Apparently we're all psycho killers because we've read Chaucer, Euripedes, Shakespeare, etc. Maybe I'll get to do Our Town or some other over-done standard. Or maybe the older students will have to do Charlotte's Web like I did with the younger ones. Edited Shakespeare might ruin them.
PS- Charter schools in general make my stomach heave. Maybe I'll rant about that sometime.
PS- Charter schools in general make my stomach heave. Maybe I'll rant about that sometime.
Makin' sweet love to CMBs since 2001.
I'm a little pissed off here.
21/10/2009 12:18:59 AM
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Wow. Wait. What?
21/10/2009 12:26:03 AM
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<3 Dark and Twisted stories.
21/10/2009 12:32:45 AM
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That makes me mad and sad...
21/10/2009 12:34:30 AM
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How'd your Charlotte's Web go? I know you had to work with a lot of no-shows due to illness. *NM*
21/10/2009 01:06:22 AM
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That's stupid. I can't even say anything else or I risk a long rant. *NM*
21/10/2009 01:46:21 AM
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do they also read romeo and juliet in your school's english lit class?
21/10/2009 03:06:57 AM
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Well, that's what you get for insisting that "Rock Me Sexy Jesus" is your closing number.
21/10/2009 02:16:44 PM
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But I offset that by opening with It's Raining Men so I don't get their issue. *NM*
22/10/2009 01:21:36 AM
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Can you make a case for yourself?
21/10/2009 04:56:48 PM
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Charter school boards decree from on high and won't listen to anyone....
22/10/2009 01:10:36 AM
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Tell them you are doing a new play... MGB & TaskMasterJack's Apartment
21/10/2009 05:52:07 PM
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It would be hilarious to watch a middle school theater production of those. *NM*
21/10/2009 06:55:31 PM
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Aside from the censorship it would have been nice to know that BEFORE you worked on the script.
21/10/2009 08:00:38 PM
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