Skinnamarink is based on “McGuffey's Eclectic Readers,” a series of American schoolbooks used to teach children how to read from the 1830s to today (yes, to today). Pre-dating the pastel-colored/everybody-happy world of "Dick and Jane," these brutal little books helped shaped the minds and behaviors of Americans for generations. The simple, rich language of these primers and their blatantly moralistic underpinnings launched us to question our current mess of American belief-systems: How were you taught to read? To think? To behave? How were you punished? What is your relationship to authority? To discipline? To shame?
Transforming New York Theatre Workshop’s 4th Street Theatre into our own little one-room schoolhouse of horrors, Skinnamarink questions what kind of people are the most useful in society...and how we handle the rest.
Age Guidance: 16
Show Notes: No Intermission
Audience Advisory:
Due to the building's landmark status, the Fourth Street Theatre is not a wheelchair accessible space. There are 8 stairs leading from the street level to the main floor of the building where the theatre is located. Allergy warning: peanut butter will be used in this performance.
Performance Schedule:
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 PM
Director
Michael Levinton
Written by
Michael Levinton & Little Lord - creation