PANOPLY PERFORMANCE LABORATORY

Schooled and Unschooled




Schooled and Unschooled at Dixon Place and the West End Theater, April 2008 Written by Esther Neff, Music composed and played by Brian McCorkle with Patrick Scerri. Theater Performance exploiting rhetoric for and against institutionalized schooling in the U.S. Devised from over 50 interviews with current students and educators, past students, and the texts of Michel Foucault and educational theorists, rubber balls, overhead projections, and plastic dinosaurs sketch out the role of K-12 schooling in the development of an individual and their modes of socio-political participation.