Monday, April 07, 2008
Katie Henry, teen playwright college bound
San Francisco Chronicle: "Playwright Katie Henry, a Berkeley High School senior, was in Paris last year for her mother's 50th birthday and missed the Berkeley Repertory Theatre's production of her 'Room 12,' one of two winners of the Rep's annual teen playwriting contest. But thanks to a brazen act of plagiarism, Henry - who won the competition again this year for her 'Perfect Score' - got to see 'Room 12' in a local high school production directed by the girl who'd tried to pass the play off as her own."
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I enjoy the idea of a student who is in the middle of the college application process writing a play about the stress of the college application process. She obviously has feelings and insights towards the process and how difficult of a time it has become in student's lives. However, I do feel that she is missing some of the pressure as a result of her success. She is trying to choose between NYU and hoping for Yale. Not that this is not extremely stressful, but she is lacking the pressure to rise to a "Name School" she is already set in a very fine institution.
this is another article that highlights the innovative and fresh things the berkely rep theatre is doing in the field. it is programs like this that will keep the industry modern and ahead in our constantly changing and updating culture.
Weird.
I have been around a lot of kids who frankly don't give a damn about the entire college application process. However I have been around others who won't eat or sleep until they hear their answer. People can really relate to this play, which I guess is some reassuring pleasure people would find in theatre. If anything, it allows teens to relate to the ongoing stress that is "shaping our future's".
I would love to read one of her plays. I have been hearing a lot lately about the application process in college and what everyones experience was in getting into the college that they wanted. I guess it because of the time of year it is. But I don't know if I really agree with the application process and all the hops that everyone has to jump through to get to college. But no matter it does cause tons of stress and no matter the generation or the experience I think that everyone will be able to understand what she has written.
I'd like to read her play. She's got to have some really good writing to make such a miserable time (college application process) interesting or funny.
But then I hear parts of the article like this: The college-application process, Ivy proclaims, is "turning me, you, all of us, into nothing more than numbers, digits. ... I resent being nothing more than scores and word counts. I resent being dehumanized!" And I think otherwise. I know at least two people who have written the same rant many a time.
I'm surprised how laid back the author is, though. I would be slightly upset if someone stole my art and called it their own. I guess she sees that the thief got theirs in the end.
This is a great topic for a playwright to address through a piece. The stress is not only for those applying for college, but anyone who is applying to a job, or internship, or anything where we as people have to boast about ourselves and and actually analyze our skills and qualities. i am sure that this is a hilarious piece that captures every part of the process.
rmcausland said...
I'd like to read her play...
But then I hear parts of the article like this: The college-application process, Ivy proclaims, is "turning me, you, all of us, into nothing more than numbers, digits. ... I resent being nothing more than scores and word counts. I resent being dehumanized!"
I resent her mom-jeans. Didn't she know she was going to be photographed?
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