Word: zigler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mamet's clipped, macho, Ping-Pong dialogue still has a good deal of satiric punch. ("How's Laurie?" "Fine." "Yeah, but how is she, though?") Scott Zigler has directed with haunting spareness. And the acting is top-notch, particularly Patti LuPone, feisty and funny as Jolly. But raiding the memory bank has made Mamet lazy. His plays have never been much concerned with plot, but The Old Neighborhood has no forward propulsion at all. Bobby spends most of the time staring off into the distance, head cocked slightly, as if groping for memories, meaning, connection. So are we. Because...
...Scott Zigler, who will direct the world premiere of David Mamet's The Old Neighborhood at the A.R.T. this year, will present an open rehearsal of a scene from the play, followed by a discussion...
...lessons of Bowling Park, where the student body is overwhelmingly black and low income, are not just for schools that serve the poor. In fact, Zigler's concept of expanding school into a full-day, year-round enterprise is equally crucial to middle-class parents at Sycamore Hills Elementary School in Independence, Missouri, where students are mostly white...
...Michigan, in the 1960s. The latest investigation of Head Start itself, by the Health and Human Services Department, calls many of the approximately 1,300 Head Start programs that currently serve about 700,000 children poorly run and unsuccessful at providing youngsters with even basic care. Yale Professor Edward Zigler, an architect of the original program, estimates that "at best" only 40% of Head Start centers are "high quality. Closing down 30% of them," he adds, "would be no great loss...
What's gone wrong? "Lots," says Zigler. With 47% of Head Start instructors earning only about $10,000 a year, attracting good teachers is a serious obstacle. Other problems involve lack of training, substandard facilities and short hours; most programs operate half days or less. More important, since most Head Start programs serve only four-year-olds for a single year, the positive effects fade away by the first grade. Most experts suggest a two-year program that begins at age three, with follow-up instruction that lasts through the fourth grade. A plan worth its promise would not only...