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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." E_. 1 poetry about the topic, intenveaving verse as the drama moves ahead. 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