The Teacher

City Mark Art Center presents Valentin Tanev in "The Teacher" by Jean-Pierre Dopagne. Is the schoolmaster a role model — or merely a servant? A priest initiated into the secret, a master of souls — or a childminder, a nanny, a discard! What if the teacher is a God descended to earth? When Jean-Pierre Dopagne wrote his scandalous play twenty years ago, it was a curiosity, a paradox, a fantasy… at best a warning. Today it is a banal observation — which makes it even more frightening… and funny. Directed by Georgi Mihalkov; set and costumes: Jeanette Ivanova; translation: Snezhina Zdravkova.