As a culture we have enshrined him and his plays, a process which, at least for some, tends to gild the original into irrelevance, so that it will take a particularly gifted teacher, dynamic production, or sensitive critic to rediscover what it was we valued about the work in the first place.
The Academy for Careers in Television and Film in Long Island City, Queens, for example, has one computer for each of its 320 students, a dozen video camera setups (each costing $3,000 to $4,000) and seven teachers with production experience.
But for students of Bina Menon, who teaches Indian dance, such unbecoming-sounding roles involve no lapse in discipline, dignity or self-awareness: If anything, playing a forest-dwelling creature in one of the teacher's productions helps lead to an understanding of a culture that, without her, might prove out of reach.
Identification of schools, rapid orientation of teachers, textbook production, ordering and distribution of learning materials, co-ordination of partners and their activities - all these are accelerating now, and UNICEF is pleased to be supporting the Ministry of Education in this gigantic endeavour.
Cheaper locally-made models (or part-task trainers) could be the answer, especially when teachers are involved in design and production (teacher-made models, TM).
Several of the ensemble plays this season include actors who have been attached to the work for years, like Deirdre O'Connell, who participated in four workshops of "Circle Mirror Transformation" before playing Marty, the acting class teacher, in its production at Playwrights.
The words of Alice Walker (spoken by a teacher in the production) chime poignantly here: "Sometimes in my anger and frustration at the world we live in, I ask myself, What is real and what is not?" These words also serve as an apt introduction to another student production on at the Fringe.
Cutting off the synths to complete silence is a tip I received from my composition and music production teacher.
"There are also movies filmed in Boyle Heights that have had a positive effect on the community," says Tom McCluskey, a video production teacher at Roosevelt High School and USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni.
With a residency at Pacifico in Halifax; a part-time job as an electronic music production teacher; and a collection of remixes so diverse even Kygo would be impressed, the east coaster is inarguably spreading his musical wealth — a wealth that's rooted in nostalgia for music of the past.
