CYT Indy presents Up the Down Staircase
“Hi, Teach!” are the first words to greet attractive Sylvia Barrett. There’s a special happiness in walking into the still-empty classroom and for the first time writing her name on the blackboard. Students pour into the classroom—cautious, testing, challenging. Simultaneously, there’s a blizzard of paperwork, warnings, contradictory orders, indecipherable instructions. Frantic, Sylvia begins to fear she doesn’t even understand the language.
An experienced teacher translates: “Keep on file in numerical order” means throw in wastebasket. “Let it be a challenge” means you’re stuck with it. “Interpersonal relationships” means a fight between kids. And “It has come to my attention” means you’re in trouble.
Soon Sylvia finds herself the most involved person in the school—involved in the start of a romance and in a near war with a discipline-over-everything administrator, but, most of all, involved in the unexpected, sometimes heartbreaking problems of her students.
One critic said, “Seldom has a humorous work been at the same time so important.”
PRICES: $14 – Individual Online
$16 – At-the-Door Price
$12 – Group Discount (10 ticket minimum)
$12 – Child Discount (Age Limit: 12)
$12 – Student Discount (ID Required)
$12 – Senior Discount (Age Minimum: 65)
Phone: 317-875-1900
Email: leciafloyd@artsforlawrence.org
2017/01/13 - 2017/01/15
Theater at the Fort
8920 OTIS AVENUE, Indianapolis, IN 46216