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“Weejuns, John Lennon and White Rabbit—I dig it ”
by Andrew Cuk
There is perhaps no more appropriate place to follow Horace’s dictum that theatre should teach and please than in an educational environment. Each production has references to political, geographical and cultural history, whether those histories are in the present, two thousand years ago or in the made-up references of fantasy. This term at John Abbott College, I am directing the two-year cégep students in a production of Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles, a play that gives the opportunity to teach seventeen to nineteen year olds about a time period their parents were born into and lived through.
