Educating our youngsters --- deciding what and what not to teach them --- is a very serious matter. But apparently that news never made its way to playwright Idris Goodwin. For he has taken the subject of education in America today and turned it on its ear, examining the matter from an absurdist perspective in a jaunty little comedy called What’s Best for the Children, now … [Read more...]
World premiere ‘What’s Best for the Children’ aims for laughs before message
When Idris Goodwin was commissioned by the Boulder (Colo.) Ensemble Theatre, he was drawn to writing about the challenge of education today, but he had no idea what shape the script would take. Eventually titled What’s Best for the Children, the play grew out of a performance piece he had written years earlier after reading an article about Texas and the power that state has … [Read more...]