While many local schools are doing their part to help send relief to Haiti, other poor countries are also getting a little attention from Downtown. The Manhattan Youth Players, an after-school theater program at I.S. 89, is putting on a play written by children in Sierra Leone.
This semester, the players in Battery Park City have had an exchange program with the MADAM school in the Makali Village, “literally the poorest town in one of the world’s least developed countries,” according to Theseus Roche, who leads Manhattan Youth’s theater group. The play, “A Farmer’s Life,” was written by MADAM students and will be performed Feb. 5 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 6 at 3 p.m. at I.S. 89, 201 Warren St. The $10 suggested donation will help benefit the African school.
