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As the sparse audience filed into
Booker T. Washington Auditorium
Monday night, they could not help
but be aware of a commanding
presence. Here was a massive,
buxom woman seated behind a
desk and beside a blackboard,
delivering the classic American
schoolhouse pronouncement ?
Known to all tans of Our Gang and
Miss Crabtree ? informing the
audience that she was the new
teacher, Miss Margarida.
Things would be done, she
trumpeted, "Miss Margarida's
way." Hence the title for this
strange and powerful play, a play
consisting of the lady's efforts to'
explain her "way," her view of the
world, to the "class" or audience.
Miss Margarida (Ann McDaniel)
most assuredly is not a blond,
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is a swastika armband and heavy
boots and she would pass for
Helga, the she-wolf commandant
of a concentration camp. Yet a
Nazi is exactly what comes to mind
when Miss Margarida begins to
explain her "way" to her audience
of eighth graders. She screams
obscenities at them ? they are all
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demands total obedience ? The
deserving ones; who are they?
They are those who obey" ? and
threatens to send transgressors to
the principal's office, from whence
there is no return.
Yet, for all her bitchiness, she
possesses a saving grace in that
she is preparing her eighth graders
for life, that she is only concerned
with their happiness. She does not
allow them to speak, she explains,
because in life nobody really has
much to say anyway. She places all
of biology in a very sober nutshell
? in everyone's life there is a
beginning, a middle and an end,
with an emphasis on the end. Miss
Margarida even pulls out a
skeleton to show each of the eighth
graders what they will look like
someday.
In showing her "eighth grade"
audience the way of all flesh, in
preparing them for the heartaches
to come, she wants to be their
savior. Miss Margarida notes with
satisfaction that nobody in the
class is named Messiah, Jesus or
Holy Ghost; she wants to be all of
those rolled into one.
Yet, for a Messiah, Miss
Margarida has some peculiarly
human faults, as she is wildly
inconsistent, TTie gospel according
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but she allows no students in her
class to express their opinions. She
does not believe that teachers
should digress, and yet she
digresses at every third sentence.
Finally, though she accuses her
students of wanting to see her
naked ? sex education, she
reminds them, comes only after
they have become seniors ? she is
the one who lays herself bare with
her monologue.
"Miss Margarida's Way" closes
tonight at 8 p.m. at Booker T.
Washington Auditorium.
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