Worth Reading

Posted April 27th, 2009 by poorplayer and filed in Academia, Musings

Dunkirk NY – The crush of production has left me with precious little time to add to this blog of late, so I thought I’d take the time this morning to add two items from my morning read.

The first is an op-ed piece in this morning’s NY Times which might go unread by many, but is I think significant. For me the significance lies in the premises presented about university education; namely, that we are producing a significant amount of unemployable people for an ancient and crumbling institution. The parallels to theatre and specifically to an MFA education should be apparent. The link is here:

End The University As We Know It

The second is the continuing dialog between Todd Olson and Mike Daisey. Many of you have probably already read it, I am sure, but just in case:

Todd and Mike Part 2

As Prologue for Romeo and Juliet

As Prologue for Romeo and Juliet

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