The students of Calvin Coolidge High School have no interest in paying heed to Barrett’s lectures or demonstrating even the most basic gestures of respect, but her endless passion for teaching is evident as she attempts to persevere in the most difficult of teaching environments.īarrett develops a relationship with one renegade thug of a student, Joe Ferone, played by David Cress (’13), and attempts to turn a moribund school into a respectable establishment. Barrett is confronted with a mission that is impossible at first and extremely demoralizing, even to the extent where she interviews for another post. Up the Down Staircase depicts the saga of a freshly hired teacher, Sylvia Barrett, played by Lucia Proctor-Bonbright (’14), and her attempt to navigate a treacherous school plagued by unfortunate accidents, disinterested students and extremely overbearing administration members. I was initially enamored by the idea of seeing a mid-1960s classic adapted to ASL in the first student production of the year.
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