Before my daughter was born, there were three kids who lived with us for several months. Their parents were having issues, many issues, and there were unable to care for them, so we offered for them to live with us until the parental problems could be resolved. They got divorced and moved far away from one another.
Two of those kids have turned into very creative teenagers who were in Marshfield High School’s performance of The Jellybean Conspiracy, which incidentally has received a lot of local publicity. The third kid is in Air Force boot camp. The performance is about diversity and how each of us are like jellybeans, in that they are different colors and tastes, but they are still all jellybeans. The production is part musical performance art and part play – a very interesting thing to watch.
What makes this performance so interesting, and diverse at its own core, is that it makes use of students with disabilities. The school recruits the students with Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy and other disabilities from its student body to be performers with essential speaking parts.
There were a few problems with the script from both a disability advocacy and a writing point of view, but I’ll forego those because I don’t want to miss the point of the performance. The students, those with and without disabilities, did a fantastic job and I was impressed.
Two of those kids have turned into very creative teenagers who were in Marshfield High School’s performance of The Jellybean Conspiracy, which incidentally has received a lot of local publicity. The third kid is in Air Force boot camp. The performance is about diversity and how each of us are like jellybeans, in that they are different colors and tastes, but they are still all jellybeans. The production is part musical performance art and part play – a very interesting thing to watch.
What makes this performance so interesting, and diverse at its own core, is that it makes use of students with disabilities. The school recruits the students with Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy and other disabilities from its student body to be performers with essential speaking parts.
There were a few problems with the script from both a disability advocacy and a writing point of view, but I’ll forego those because I don’t want to miss the point of the performance. The students, those with and without disabilities, did a fantastic job and I was impressed.
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