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School of Music. Other actors, who
have appeared in Michigan's regional
theater circuit, include Lynch Travis,
Scott Norman, Glen Bugala and La
Ann Arbor
Toya Battle.
wo Ann Arbor teachers, Ben
Among the early audiences was a
Cohen and Jeff Kass, have
group
from the National Conference of
developed a theater piece about
Teachers
of English meeting in Indiana.
integration in education and hope to
"I
wanted
to do a theater program to
tour it around the country — but not
mark the 50th anniversary of the Brown
before it is seen around Michigan.
V. Board of Education proceedings,"
Lay Your Comfort Down, which takes
explains Cohen, 42, founding
its name from a folk song,
music director of the Zamir
combines drama, poetry and a
Chorale of Metropolitan
cappella music as it tells one
Detroit.
"I started working on
story leading up to the Brown
this
in
May
of 2003 and fin-
v. Board of Education Supreme
ished in May of 2004, the
Court decision that ended the
anniversary year of the deci-
separate but equal" doctrine
sion.
I wrote some of the
in public schools. The pro-
music."
duction will be performed 7
Cohen, who also developed
p.m. Monday, May 9, at the
a
play
with choral perform-
Seligman Performing Arts
Willis Patterson
ances
for
a program at the
Center in Beverly Hills.
stars in the pro-
Birmingham Temple in
The piece, which follows
duction.
Farmington Hills, was pleased
the reaction of an African-
with
the perspectives brought
American principal whose stu-
to
the
production by the stu-
dents are boycotting the
dents
coached
by Kass. The
school, is produced by Stage
plan
for
the
future,
as the pro-
Write Productions, the educa-
duction
travels
to
other
states,
tional arm of the Stages
is
to
include
poems
written
Theatre Company. The prin-
and read by students in each
cipal's dilemma plays con-
area visited.
science against career.
"I've been working with
"We work with intergenera-
young
poets in Ann Arbor for
tional productions, and this
Ben Cohen
seven
years,"
says Kass, 38,
one offers a deep experience
poet
in
residence
for the Ann
of images and personal feel-
Arbor
public
schools.
"I think
ings," says Georgie Pachella,
the combination of the drama
executive director of the Ann
and the poetry makes for an
Arbor-based theater company.
electric theater experience."
"It brings forth dialogue about
Kass, who has written vers-
the issues from the people in
es
dealing with his Jewish
the audience."
identity
and has conducted
Lay Your Comfort Down
poetry
programs
for Jewish
emphasizes the intergenera-
high school students, believes
tional by reaching back to the
that Lay Your Comfort Down
time of strict segregation in
reflects
Jewish
culture.
the South and moving ahead with reac-
"It
looks
at
the
past and how it
tions of high school students. Cohen
informs
the
present,"
he says.-"I think
wrote the dialogue, and Kass invited
that's
a
Jewish
way
of
looking at the
Ann Arbor teens to write and read their
world."
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poetry about the topic, intenveaving
verse as the drama moves ahead.
Lay Your Comfort Down will be per-
One of the starring performers is
formed
7 p.m. Monday, May 9, at
Willis Patterson, who has appeared on
the
Seligman
Performing Arts
television with Jessye Norman in A
Center,
22305
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