How the banned student play was created
This was written by Brian Pickett, a theater artist and educator who currently teachers high students in collaborative programs at Brooklyn College and Queensborough Community College. He was involved in helping students at two New York High Schools, Jamaica and Queens Collegiate, write a play about school reform in New York City that was subsequently banned from being performed at the school. I published the play last week, and since then, Pickett has been offered other venues to stage the play. Here is his account of how the students developed the play and learned about how and why it was banned. It first appeared on Huffington Post.
By Brian Pickett
When word came down that school officials would bar the performance of a student play set to perform at Jamaica High School, I was -- as their teacher -- charged with delivering the sad news. Huddled around an old
