Yup. Back from a solo performance at Coachella (left), the Dresden Dolls singer/pianist and Lexington High School grad Amanda Palmer has been tweeting about spending her days back at LHS:
lunch break at LHS rehearsal: people are playing guitar, evil dodgeball & we're listening to "more than a feeling" on the stereo. in love.
Palmer is providing the music for a student play based on the 1998 Neutral Milk Hotel album "In The Aeroplane Over the Sea." The play, developed through improv, invokes Anne Frank and art's power. Palmer told Pitchfork she's there because "My high school theater director, Steven Bogart, is one of my biggest artistic mentors and I've been trying to get back there since I left."
Palmer talks a lot more about her original LHS student theater experience with Bogart in "an explanation" on her blog: this was my HIGH SCHOOL THEATER DEPARTMENT. and that was only my FRESHMAN FUCKING YEAR. my jaw hit the floor. this was an adult - a teacher - who was treating the teenagers like they were adults. there was no patronizing. there was real art. we were digging into ourselves and finding real things. my heart exploded.
Performances are May 7-9. I have a feeling it's gonna be a hot ticket. Bonus funny part: NPR thought the whole story was a prank. (Thanks to Mike Benning for the Coachella pic!)
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