Contains minor mature themes
Suitable for most audiences
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Up The Down Staircase
An ACP Youth Wing Production
Adapted by: Christopher Sergel
From the book by Bel Kaufman
Directed by: Peg Tribert
Show Dates:
February: 25, 26, - 8 PM
March: 4, 5 - 8 PM
February: 27 - 3 PM
February 26 Performance Interpreted for the Deaf and hard of hearing
Sponsored By:
"Hi, Teach!" are the first words to greet attractive Sylvia Barrett. There's a special happiness in walking into the still-empty classroom and for the first time writing her name on the blackboard. Students pour into the classroom cautious, testing, challenging. Simultaneously, there's a blizzard of paperwork, warnings, contradictory orders, indecipherable instructions.
Frantic, Sylvia begins to fear she doesn't even understand the language. 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 school involved in the start of a romance and in a near war with a discipline-over-everything administrator, but, most of all, involved in the unexpected, sometimes heartbreaking problems of her students.
Produced by special arrangement with
Dramatic Publishing Inc.,
