Cappies Reviews For Up The Down Staircase

A young, ambitious teacher nurtures the hope of changing the lives of spunky schoolers by awakening their love in crime syndicateic literature however, her artlessness causes her to underestimate the rowdiness of her students. Laguna Hills production of Up the Down Staircase is a heartwarming play that shows the growing bond between a teacher and her students. This play was made into a consume in 1967. Sylvia Barrett is a caring young lady who becomes a teacher in a big city in the hopes of becoming friends with her students.Eventually, she decides to extend the school because she thinks she isnt making of school. With her head bowed, and her hands quietly place behind her back, Sylvia shuffles into her homeroom, gazing out at the daunting space as if it were alter with poisonous snakes. It is from this weak, almost pathetic child that Sylvia grows alongside her unruly students. As they, the mob turn from curious agitation to open hostility towards their tyrannic English ove rlord, so too does Sylvias innocent nature become calloused with angriness and frustration.It is in the wake of Alice Blakes (Megan Crayne Beall) accident, the young girl, whos love struck heading still had time to do the homework Ms. Sylvia assigned her, that the entire class comes together. The students desks, at first turned international from not merely the audience, entirely also Sylvia, slowly turned to face her, symbolizing not only acceptance, but also a powerful unity created not by discipline or fear, but by love and respect. Sylvias cold-hearted nature melts away and is replaced by confidence and benevolence.No longer does she stay rooted to the front of the class, allowing anger and resentment to grow within her, but she moves about, concern for the future of her students create verbally on every expression, and detailed in all her staging. Laguna Hills Up the Down Staircase is a captivating story of one womans compassion triumphing over the ignorance of society. With high energy and phenomenal stage chemistry, the entire expend puts on a show to remember.