Ahhh- it's so good to be home. Does it kinda seem to sum up the difference between Feelings and DAR, that we had opera and the meaning of sentience today at one and B-I-N-G-O and a singing cat commercial at the other?
I just got home from the parent viewing of the one-act play for the UIL competition. I'm slightly bemused. It was called Spring Awakenings and was a condensation of a longer German play written in 1890. Sort of a Freudian analytical thing about teens. Let's see- it had violence against women, a rape, depression, nymphomania, a suicide, an abortion, and a death. As Ammo casually explained it-- "you know, Mom, typical teen issues."
THe audience was as befuddled as I. THere was polite applause and then everyone just sat there, like they thought maybe the director would come out and explain it. In 1970, my first husband was a high school drama teacher, and he did FUN one-acts- a secular version of Godspell- and an adaptation of Story Theatre. I noticed on the program that another school is doing a one-act version of ONe Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Now there's another uplifting topic--power, individualism, and insanity. One school is doing something called Gut Girls.
It seems to me to be saying something about the difference between teen life in the 70s and today.
I've decided to take off Thursday to see them--especially Gut Girls. |
