After class : two plays : Parents night and The bigger issue / George F. Walker ; introduction by Wesley Berger.After class : two plays : Parents night and The bigger issue / George F. Walker ; introduction by Wesley Berger.
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Titre
After class : two plays : Parents night and The bigger issue / George F. Walker ; introduction by Wesley Berger.
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Plays. Selections
Description
161 pages ; 23 cm.
Contenu
Parents night ; 3 characters (1m, 2w). -- The bigger issue ; 4 characters (1m, 3w).
Sommaire
"In two new plays, Canada's king of black comedy takes on the failing education system. Both PARENTS NIGHT and THE BIGGER ISSUE are set in public-school classrooms after hours and involve confrontations between stressed-out teachers and ticked-off parents. Both sympathize with embattled educators and evince Walker's trademark understanding of poverty and the working classes. In both, Walker's signature moves work: the audience feels simultaneously complicit in and righteously angry about injustice and inequity. PARENT NIGHT finds grade-three teacher Nicole caught in the crossfire between John, an arrogant executive dad, and Rosie, a ballsy, low-income mom. Both are meeting with Nicole to express concerns for their children, but class warfare quickly erupts, and the kids' behaviour turns out to be a reflection of their parents' messed-up lives. A harried Nicole is dealing with troubles of her own, but she makes a brave attempt to discipline these overgrown brats. THE BIGGER ISSUE covers the same ground but digs deeper. Suzy, a novice middle-school teacher, has been called onto the carpet by the principal, Irene, for physically accosting a violent student. But when the boy's parents show up, it becomes clear that Jack and Maggie are a middle-class couple reduced to abject poverty; the real problem isn't their son or the school but a dysfunctional society. Together, Parents Night and The Bigger Issue comprise the first installments in a projected play cycle similar to Walker's famous Suburban Motel. With an introduction by Toronto director Wesley Berger."--
ISBN
9781772011845 (softcover)
Sujets
Cote
D W179af 2017
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