If you aren't worried about canon, Mark Helprin's Winter's Tale qualifies as American magical realism.
I'd agree on Neil Simon for American theatrical comedy -- maybe The Odd Couple, although today's high school students will certainly see things in it that Simon's original audience probably didn't. Barefoot in the Park might work better, but it loses something on the printed page, so you'd want to show them the movie. If you want to go back a bit further, there's Philip Barry -- much as I love The Philadelphia Story, I suspect Holiday would speak better to today's high school students. But his comedy may be a bit too "drawing room."
He says to look at Caryl Churchill
UGH. Please don't inflict Caryl Churchill on your students, I beg you.
might be the same thing as quark
The problem is, the grocer SAYS it's in the dairy case, but you can never find it....
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The problem is, the grocer SAYS it's in the dairy case, but you can never find it....
I believe the solution is to throw a pint of heavy cream really hard into the rest of the items in the case...
Timelies all!
Took today off to go to Malice Domestic. I'll head down there after lunch.
Mmm, mysteries...
I'd never heard of quark until I landed in Austria and my friend slathered it on rye with raspberry preserves. Mmm.
Why is it I only wake up late on days I have to be here by a certain time? I'm all frazzled still. Made it. but frazzled.
Argh. My apartment has a whole lot of ceiling lights. Two of them are burned out. They're both the sort of fixtures with a glass dome over the bulb, and I can't figure out how to get the dome off of one of them. (I got it off the other one, replaced the bulb, and it's still not working, so I think that there's something wrong with that fixture.)
OK, wikipedia suggests that what I know as farmer's cheese might be the same thing as quark (I've tried quark, and it is pretty similar), which is sold in Canada as baker's cheese.
Crazy. I did a little googling and I did read that farmer's cheese can come in a variety of textures.
I did a little googling and I did read that farmer's cheese can come in a variety of textures.
I've had Mexican farmer's cheese that was like a slightly firmer buffalo mozarella.
I'm afraid most of my knowledge of modern comedic theatre is too gay-themed to be appropriate in a high school classroom. I suspect teaching Rudnick's The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told would not fly well with certain parents.
Does the positioning of comedy as the last genre taught mean it has to be the most recent? If not, maybe something from Gilbert & Sullivan like The Pirates of Penzance?
