I'm no great fan of this particular musical, but I don't understand the rationale for barring it from schools based on its sexual content. By the time kids graduate high school they'll likely have read more sexually explicit works in English class. There is also the fact that health class is a requirement in most public schools across the country, and unless anything has changed in the ten years since I was a high school students, they don't spare many details there. And of course the movies and television they watch, and magazines they read, speak more frankly of sex than SPRING even insinuates.
It would be great if high schools staged productions of Wedekind's original text.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 9/10/11 at 09:45 PM
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