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|region=North America | |region=North America | ||
|artist=Steve Martin | |artist=Steve Martin | ||
|confronting_bodies=La Grande shool board | |confronting_bodies=La Grande shool board | ||
|medium=Theatre | |medium=Theatre | ||
|date_of_action=March 2009 | |date_of_action=March 2009 | ||
|location=La Grande, Oregon | |location=La Grande, Oregon | ||
|description_of_content="The 1993 play imagines a meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in a Paris bar as they are on the verge of great achievements in painting and physics. It is aimed at explaining 'the similarity of the creative process involved in great leaps of imagination in art and science,' Martin said in the letter published Friday in The La Grande Observer." [http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29705203/ns/today-entertainment/t/show-will-go-steve-martins-dime/#.UBAgAkQxs7A] | |description_of_content="The 1993 play imagines a meeting between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein in a Paris bar as they are on the verge of great achievements in painting and physics. It is aimed at explaining 'the similarity of the creative process involved in great leaps of imagination in art and science,' Martin said in the letter published Friday in The La Grande Observer." [http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29705203/ns/today-entertainment/t/show-will-go-steve-martins-dime/#.UBAgAkQxs7A] | ||
|description_of_incident=The play had been approved for production when school parent Melissa Jackman gathered 137 signatures asking that the play be cancelled or Bowdlerized. In a 4-3 vote, the school board agreed with Ms. Jackman. | |description_of_incident=The play had been approved for production when school parent Melissa Jackman gathered 137 signatures asking that the play be cancelled or Bowdlerized. In a 4-3 vote, the school board agreed with Ms. Jackman. | ||
|description_of_result=After a letter from NCAC and a letter to the editor of the local newspaper from the playwright defending the work, the play was put on for performance at East Oregon University, with the playwright himself paying for the production costs. | |description_of_result=After a letter from NCAC and a letter to the editor of the local newspaper from the playwright defending the work, the play was put on for performance at East Oregon University, with the playwright himself paying for the production costs. | ||
|source=http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2009/05/behind_the_scenes_a_war_of_wor.html | |source=http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2009/05/behind_the_scenes_a_war_of_wor.html | ||
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