VOICES FROM THE GAP
The Education Trust's
Actorvist Productions
Staging Equity in the Reform Arena
"At a recent meeting, I had the pleasure of watching the performance, Dilated Pupils and the Not-so-Soft Bigotry of a Nation. I found it to be a moving portrayal of some of the true difficulties faced by disadvantaged, minority high school students. Unlike reading a report, the theatrical performance has a way of putting the viewer right in the shoes of the student or other subject being portrayed. This performance does, indeed, bring the words to life."
-The Honorable Richard W. Riley, Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Check out the article in
Ed Week!:
'Much Ado About Teaching'
Fresh out of the Education Trust
comes a theater for the education reform movement.
Characterized as provocative, edgy, and brutally honest, Artist-in-Residence Brooke Haycock's one-woman shows have rocked audiences across the country.
Her work has been used with groups of students, parents, teachers, school administrators, higher ed faculty and administrators, policymakers and advocates alike to spark honest dialogue and focus energies around some of the most pressing and emotionally charged issues we face in American education today.
The Shows:
NEW! Hot off the page and onto the stage...
B u z z
A play about success..and the relentless pursuit of it
Check out this new one-woman show about hope, hard work, and high achievement in America's high-poverty, high-minority high schools. Straight from the mouths of students, teachers and school leaders and onto the stage...catch the Buzz.
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Dilated Pupils
and the
Not-So-Soft Bigotry of a Nation
“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
-Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
Dilated Pupils and the Not-So-Soft Bigotry of a Nation takes audiences on a whirlwind tour through the school doors, past the metal detectors and straight into the lives, hearts, and minds of three DC-area high school students.
Through the portrayal of 12 characters, ranging from a 15-year-old African-American boy to a 60-year-old Jewish ESL teacher, Dilated Pupils dares audiences to look beyond the data and to confront the very human, often painful, stories of young people left to struggle in a system buckled under the devastating weight of low expectations.
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6 Degrees
of
Preparation
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things."
-The Shawshank Redemption
6 Degrees of Preparation pulls audiences right out of their seats and deep into the heart of the teaching profession for an intimate look at issues of teacher preparation, support, and retention.
Based on more than 300 interviews with teachers, teacher candidates, teacher educators, teacher leaders and students, 6 Degrees examines belief structures in schools, districts, and schools of education, and the stunning impact they have on new teachers and the children they serve.
1 woman, 15 characters, 45 minutes.
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