![]() The Crazy School gives us the quirky, cynical Madeline Dare and her impressions as a new teacher in the dangerous and unusual Santangelo Academy. And as she tries to make sense of what happened and how to protect herself and her students, we get drawn into the mysteries and secrets going on in The Crazy School. ![]() When sudden violence erupts on campus, Madeline finds herself right in the middle of it. While this doesn't endear her to everyone, it does make her a sympathetic and teacher and an interesting lead character. Madeline responds to the demands and requirements with humor, cynicism, and good sense. Everyone on campus, teachers and students alike, must submit to the founder's bizarre therapeutic treatments and regimen. ![]() The school is notoriously expensive and experimental and set in gorgeous grounds in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts. ![]() After an irregular childhood and traumatic personal event, Madeline Dare accepts a post at Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for disturbed teenagers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As Aidoo says, "or the rest of her life, she was to regret this moment when she was made to notice differences in human colouring. For Sissie, these two incidences are a confrontation with the reality of racism which force her to recognize the way in which racial difference is used to construct and prop up power structures in a way in which she has never before experienced. Her second encounter with racism follows shortly thereafter at a railway station in Germany when a German woman points her out to her daughter as a black woman. ![]() Sissie's first encounter with racism takes place immediately upon her departure from Ghana on the plane to Europe which symbolically is coming from South Africa thus highlighting not only the continued presence of racism but also its relationship to the colonization of the African continent. Our Sister Killjoy: Characterizing Immigration/Emigration Megan Behrent, Brown University '97 Our Sister Killjoy: Characterizing Immigration/Emigration ![]() ![]() ![]() The first time I saw it in a workshop at the Public Theater-or a reading-I’m such a theatrical idiot, I can’t keep these straight-the first time with actors reading and singing was really good. What Lisa and Jeanine did was they took my book all apart, found the things that made it work and put it all back together somehow.ĭid you worry in moments it wasn’t clicking that you’d made a mistake? Even objectively, it’s an amazing adaptation. On the whole, I feel like it’s incredibly faithful to my story. I’ve watched it evolve over the years and there have been moments when I felt it wasn’t clicking and many when it was. My first exposure was listening to the score on a CD. I expected to feel a remove, and I expected to feel a remove from the story. If it was film, I might have have been more territorial.ĭo you feel as though you’re watching your own life experience onstage, or experiencing it at a sort of aesthetic remove? It was clear this was a completely different medium. I didn’t really know what I was getting into. ![]() That was part of why I signed on for this. I came from a theatrical family, but I never took a passionate interest in it. ![]() |