2008 Woodie Awards
Family Feud over "How I learned to Drive"
Pat Pickens
Issue date: 3/2/06 Section: News
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Everyone at Sacred Heart is considered to be part of the "Sacred Heart family," and this past week our school has got into a "family feud," and this feud was no game.
The arguments that started this feud centered around the advertisements of the play "How I Learned to Drive," which was playing in the Edgerton Theater this past weekend.
Students were bombarded with a barrage of emails on Wed. Feb 22, when they received what seemed to be a relatively harmless e-mail inviting them all to see the schools rendition of the low brow, off-Broadway, comedic, love-story, "How I Learned to Drive."
The e-mail invited people to see the show which was described as a show about an 11 year old "young woman's" affair with her uncle, and her way of dealing with it until she turned 18.
"I sent out an e-mail and one of my colleagues took exception to the wording that I used, so I revised it and sent out another, new description of the show," director Kyle Minor said.
However, on Friday, two days after this e-mail was sent, students, were showered with several e-mails from several different faculty and staff who became critical of the e-mails wording and tone.
The e-mails were not critical of the play itself, but regarded the diction of the first invitation. Some of the actors involved were upset that their show, which they had worked so hard, and spent so much time on, was receiving criticism.
"It was unsettling because we had worked so hard to understand the show and to make the show work," said Monica Veale, freshman,Chatham, N.J., who played the main character 'Lil Bip,'
"I hope that anyone who was critical of the show took the time to actually see what kind of show it was."
Religious Studies Prof. June Anne Greeley, who started the chain of e-mails, said that she had no ill will towards the students our faculty, or the play itself.
"I feel that [the show] sends an important message that should get out and be addressed on a university campus," she said.
The arguments that started this feud centered around the advertisements of the play "How I Learned to Drive," which was playing in the Edgerton Theater this past weekend.
Students were bombarded with a barrage of emails on Wed. Feb 22, when they received what seemed to be a relatively harmless e-mail inviting them all to see the schools rendition of the low brow, off-Broadway, comedic, love-story, "How I Learned to Drive."
The e-mail invited people to see the show which was described as a show about an 11 year old "young woman's" affair with her uncle, and her way of dealing with it until she turned 18.
"I sent out an e-mail and one of my colleagues took exception to the wording that I used, so I revised it and sent out another, new description of the show," director Kyle Minor said.
However, on Friday, two days after this e-mail was sent, students, were showered with several e-mails from several different faculty and staff who became critical of the e-mails wording and tone.
The e-mails were not critical of the play itself, but regarded the diction of the first invitation. Some of the actors involved were upset that their show, which they had worked so hard, and spent so much time on, was receiving criticism.
"It was unsettling because we had worked so hard to understand the show and to make the show work," said Monica Veale, freshman,Chatham, N.J., who played the main character 'Lil Bip,'
"I hope that anyone who was critical of the show took the time to actually see what kind of show it was."
Religious Studies Prof. June Anne Greeley, who started the chain of e-mails, said that she had no ill will towards the students our faculty, or the play itself.
"I feel that [the show] sends an important message that should get out and be addressed on a university campus," she said.