These leading characters may be outspoken and problematic at times but they also have an endearing quality, and as a spectator you can’t help but ultimately root for their success. Thank you so much for arranging for your incredible Teechers cast to talk to some of our young actors last night @Lighthouse. The show was fantastic! Laugh out loud funny, deliciously rude and irreverent, touching and thought provoking.

Mr. Harrison – the drama teacher, socialist and idealistic, called Mr. Nixon in the play, to "Protect the names of the innocent", young and casual. I really think that every school should see this production as part of the curriculum!!! We were all totally transported & rooting for Hobby, Gail and Salty. YorkMix Radio‘s own Laura Castle played the charismatic Gail, and as with the rest of the cast also plays a multitude of roles — you’d think she’d run out of accents but each time a fresh portrayal was given; a personal favourite being Doug the caretaker who’s interactions with Miss Nixon were hysterical. Castle is a exceptional performer with a extensive skill set, and she is a joy to watch. Laura Castle If only we could say that things have changed & that Shakespeare & Drama are celebrated instead of relegated! Set within the troubled walls of Whitewall School, East Yorkshire, Teechers is a comedy that centres around three unforgettable characters: Hobby, Salty and Gail — who with the help of their new drama teacher Miss Nixon create their own devised performance, presenting to us a play within a play.

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At the heart of TEECHERS is the very real assertion that the arts, and especially drama, should form an essential part of the school curriculum. It also attempts to demonstrate the effect that exposure to the arts has on young people. The conceit is that Gail, Salty and Hobby have invented the play TEECHERS, which the audience is watching, and ipso facto, during their drama lessons they have become skilled and analytical story tellers and observers, able to comment on society as they live through it.

They are gobby as the pupils and flustered as the teachers, switching between parts with dazzling speed. In a role first taken by her father, Martha Godber plays a working-class drama teacher who dares to see the potential in the disillusioned pupils. But winning them over turns out to be a lot easier than conquering a school hierarchy that, with its eyes on “specialist technology status”, sees creativity as an optional extra. urn:lcp:teechersclassroo0000godb:epub:b9b49e62-3c55-41de-aa09-b64e0e951d56 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier teechersclassroo0000godb Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6652kr0p Invoice 1652 Isbn 057301678X Lccn 89204735 //r95 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-rc1-12-g88b4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9507 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000477 Openlibrary_editionSophie Bullivant brought fire to the role of Salty, and despite the name had an air of sweetness to her character as she was the first to warm to Miss Nixon. Sophie’s monologue towards the end of the show was a particularly prominent moment within the performance. As she spilled her truths on the schooling system, she entranced everyone in the audience as she delivered her lines with great power — again I’m sure resonating with many. It is a play within a play in which three students performed for their teachers. Everything in the play is reduced to the bare essentials, with very little set and the three actors playing twenty other parts. The students perform to an audience an account of their time in secondary school (given the name 'Whitewall High School' for their performance), specifically their time with Mr. Jeff Nixon, the new drama teacher who ignites their passion for the stage with his idealism and belief that all children should be treated equally. The children mention that the names of the characters have been changed: Mr. Nixon's real name is Mr. Harrison, mentioned at the beginning. At the end of the play, he leaves Whitewall High School to teach at St George's, another school that is regarded more highly. Once the three kids know that Nixon is leaving, they start to understand how much he helped them. Salty, in particular, wants to carry on with drama once he has left school. We thought that Mr Nixon may run an amateur theatre company out of school and that he left his old school because of an incident with a pupil. Mr Basfords wife could be a high-flying business woman who earns most of the cash and boss him about at home, which is why he’s so strict and nasty. Hot-seating really gets you into the head of a character and is great to do before performing to get every aspect if his/her personality to a tee.In the short role-play we performed, we tried to use techniques in the ‘Teechers’ script (and some) which would enhance our performance. Find sources: "Teechers"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( July 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Levi Payne, Purvi Parmar and Martha Godber are like the primary coloured strips on Caitlin Mawhinney’s assembly hall set: bright sparks hopelessly trying to make the place look less institutional. Together, they are a formidable unit. Tight and joyful, they allow each other space for swaggering solo turns without ever letting the rhythm drop between them.