THURSDAY, MAY 21–SATURDAY, MAY 23
You know the rule: always obey the teacher. But what happens when the teacher is an
autocrat pushing tyrannical philosophies on her students? Roberto Athayde’s
Miss
Margarida’s Way was banned by the military government in his native
Brazil when the play opened in 1977. That only made audiences more curious.
After being staged around the world, it arrived on Broadway in 1990. It’s a
brutally comic scrutiny of the uses and abuses of power, all set in an
eighth-grade biology class where the audience members get to play students.
Those stock character Catholic school nuns have nothing on this teacher, with
her fondness for bashing democracy and dissing religion. The young troupe
Theatre on Fire gets incendiary when it stages the play at the
Charlestown
Working Theater (442 Bunker Hill Street, Charlestown, 617.242.3285) For
tickets ($15–$20, free for students with ID), visit www.charlestownworkingtheater.org
or call 866.811.4111.
