Setting...
New York's inner-city Calvin Coolidge High School, room 304
The Scenario…
There's a special happiness in walking into the still-empty classroom and for the first time writing her name on the blackboard. When Miss Sylvia Barrett arrives at Calvin Coolidge High, fresh from college, she, too, can hardly wait to shape young minds.
Instead, she encounters broken windows, no supplies, students who would rather be anyplace else, and a stifling bureaucracy that makes her job more difficult at every turn. As students pour into Miss Barrett's tiny classroom, she quickly becomes frantic and fears she doesn't even understand the system. She faces apathetic students one minute and then is bombarded by paperwork, warnings, contradictory orders, indecipherable school instructions. An experienced teacher translates: "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. "Let it be a challenge" means you're stuck with it. "Interpersonal relationships" means a fight between kids. And "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.
Soon Sylvia finds herself the most involved person in the start of a romance, a near war with a discipline-over-everything administrator, and, most of all, the unexpected, sometimes heartbreaking problems of her students.
THANK YOU
Weathervane Community Playhouse
Twinsburg Community Theatre
Mr. James Bennett, Mr. Harrison Bennett,
Ms. Kix Nicole, Michael A. Turle, Jim Turle, and Mrs. Margaret Bull
Teresa's Pizza
Mitchell's Ice Cream
Special thanks to the THS staff and faculty, especially:
Mrs. Louise Teringo, Mr. Mike Silverthorn, Mr. Roy Warren,
Mr. Alex Popovich, Mr. Brian Fantone, Mrs. Erin Benson,
Mrs. Donna Kelly, Mrs. Lizette Simon, Mrs. Margaret Chernick,
Mr. Damon Conn, Mr. Randall Lanoue, Mr. Ryan Bonitz,
Mr. Marty Ryan and his custodial crew: Mr. Ken Piechowiak,
Mr. Jerry Larkin, Mr. Lee Jefferys, Ms. Sue Orth, Ms. Betsy Male,
Ms. Maria Dillon, and Mr. Bill Toothman
