Art Scatter

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 little bit sick, a little bit sad, and a whole lot aggravating. But the show does go on! And that’s brilliant.

We might stop to talk a little about Eliot Spitzer if there was one iota of the story that hadn’t been been chewed over by multiple mouths. There’s an unfortunate image for you… But $80,000? We will say “The Wire” ended spectacularly, and when you hear members of the Fourth Estate complain about the way David Simon depicted the Baltimore Sun, they protest too much. Good stuff, and close enough to “real” to be recognizable, at least from here.

Taking a little darshan with Stephen Sondheim was a good antidote to an unruly week. Anything that makes you want to see lots more theater, that has to be a good thing, right? Apparently, a certain principal in Sherwood disagrees.

What’s next? I have no idea. We have entered deep improv mode here at Art Scatter. But something big is about to happen. I can just feel it.