By Robin Madel
The National NewBorn Festival taking place Feb 3-6 at The City College of New York's North Academic Center, is on it's way and will be here before you know it. I asked the playwrights about each of their plays.
The National NewBorn Festival taking place Feb 3-6 at The City College of New York's North Academic Center, is on it's way and will be here before you know it. I asked the playwrights about each of their plays.
THE REEDUCATION OF ARIZONA
by resident playwright David Stallings
What inspired you to write this play?
The immigration bill (10-70) had been on my mind quite a bit. As well, the sanitation of history books in Texas and the restrictions on minority studies in Arizona. I had been harping on it for weeks when someone passed me an article about what was happening at this little school in Prescott. I thought, “We do not live in a bubble, this is the world Politicians and Fox ‘News’ have created--the actions of these hate filled adults have been bred from an environment of fear, hyperbole, and outright lies.” So... I wrote this play.
What is the message you hope the audience will get from your story?
I hope people begin to find answers for themselves on the major social questions our Nation is faced with. We certainly are not getting them from news sources. So I am encouraging people to seek them out for themselves.
How do you think this story is relevant to current events in our lives?
Well, I wrote The ReEducation of Arizona in August. But after what happened in early January of this year, I find it even more important an issue than before.
by resident playwright David Stallings
What inspired you to write this play?
The immigration bill (10-70) had been on my mind quite a bit. As well, the sanitation of history books in Texas and the restrictions on minority studies in Arizona. I had been harping on it for weeks when someone passed me an article about what was happening at this little school in Prescott. I thought, “We do not live in a bubble, this is the world Politicians and Fox ‘News’ have created--the actions of these hate filled adults have been bred from an environment of fear, hyperbole, and outright lies.” So... I wrote this play.
What is the message you hope the audience will get from your story?
I hope people begin to find answers for themselves on the major social questions our Nation is faced with. We certainly are not getting them from news sources. So I am encouraging people to seek them out for themselves.
How do you think this story is relevant to current events in our lives?
Well, I wrote The ReEducation of Arizona in August. But after what happened in early January of this year, I find it even more important an issue than before.
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