Sherwood in flames!
Well, not quite. But “Higher Ground,” the bully play by a middle school teacher in Sherwood,is managing to ignite passions. Coercion on the playground and coercion by a bureaucracy are a lot alike, as Bob points out below, and maybe we are dreaming if we think the adults should know better. It’s a [...]
Good God, will this not cease?
While I was twiddling my thumbs Wednesday in a jury-duty pool, The Oregonian’s Maya Blackmun was breaking the story on the latest development in the Sherwood school censorship case: The school district is investigating Jennie Brown, the Sherwood Middle School drama teacher who wrote the play “Higher Ground,” which in [...]
The Stephen Sondheim-Frank Rich question and answer session, staged by Literary Arts at the Schnitz Tuesday, was about as delightful as it possibly could have been. Rich was a terrific interrogator: smart, prepared, completely aware that his role was to spark Sondheim into memorable bits of reflection, story-telling, even emotion. He succeeded brilliantly at [...]
“Higher Ground,” the Sherwood Middle School show about bullying that sold out Brunish Hall on Sunday after being blocked from performance at the school, is getting one more shot in downtown Portland.
It’ll be performed at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 15, once again in the Brunish, a 200-seat space in the Portland Center for the Performing [...]
The good news is, I couldn’t get in to Brunish Hall Sunday afternoon to see “Higher Ground” — it was sold out. Maybe you read about it here, on the front page of Monday’s Oregonian, in another of reporter Maya Blackmun’s continuing series on the off-again, on-again production of a play about middle-school bullying that [...]
Writing is the act of accepting the huge shortfall
between the story in the mind and what hits the page.
- Richard Powers
Richard Powers did not disappoint the small but very attentive group at his reading March 6. We accept on faith, I suppose, his claim that there is a shortfall between what is in his [...]
Do not be alarmed: below is a non-fiction comics super-post, which collects all four parts of last week’s series. It differs from the originals in some parts, but for those hardy souls who followed along, it is not necessary to read the edited version. Newcomers be warned: It’s long.
This is a good opportunity [...]
That’s Joe Sacco, to the right, looking out of the window in a restaurant in the old part of Sarajevo. As usual he is passive — listening to the stories that other people tell him, observing life around him and presumably taking notes, though in this frame, he doesn’t seem to have a notebook with [...]
The rhyme is after
all the repeated
insistence.
– Robert Creeley, “For W.C.W.”
Black Mountain College, nestled in the mountains of eastern North Carolina, was small but thrived on its own terms for the 30 years it existed from the mid-1930s to mid-1950s. And thrives, perhaps, in memory because of the storied avant garde careers of teachers and [...]
This from Maya Blackmun at The Oregonian, who’s been covering the flap over a play about bullying at Sherwood Middle School. In brief: The show’s going on, but not in Sherwood, where the school principal ordered a last-minute postponement of “Higher Ground” and said parts of the script would have to be rewritten after parents [...]