Mary Kay Letourneau
Letourneau, who later married her victim, was the subject of a USA Network movie, “All American Girl.”
The two met when he was in her sixth-grade class.
In his world premiere play, Firemen at the Echo Theater in Los Angeles, playwright Tommy Smith paints a more nuanced and penetrating portrait of the tragic dynamics of this illicit and illegal liaison.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Society tries to rationalize its terrible treatment of women with the comforting assurance that "See? Women are just as bad as men. They rape, too." But women aren't as bad as men.