Teechers by John Godber

Teechers is a play by John Godber, written in 1987. It was first performed by the Hull Truck Theatre Company at the 1987 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It is a play within a play in which three students put on a performance to their teachers. Everything in the play is reduced to the bare essentials, with very little set and the three actors playing twenty other parts. However, Godber has said that it can be peformed by twenty different actors. Godber specified the use of contemporary chart music to keep the play current.

Three school leavers, Salty, Hobby and Gail perform to the audience an accountof their time at Whitewall High School, specifically their time with Mr Nixon, the new drama teacher who ignites their passion for the stage with his idealism and belief that all children should be treated equally.

 

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