Teechers (Acting Edition S.)

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Mr. Harrison – the drama teacher, socialist and idealistic, called Mr. Nixon in the play, to "Protect the names of the innocent", young and casual. The essence of TEECHERS, and perhaps part of its attraction, is that the actors and director have the same resources available to them, that a drama teacher has in their classroom or studio; namely, a desk, some chairs and a massive imagination to work with. This open invite for the production team to use its imaginative resources can be very attractive and means that new productions have the potential to bring something new to the play.” I don’t suppose that it will come as any surprise that my play TEECHERS is based on my personal experience as a drama teacher at Minsthorpe High School, West Yorkshire, between 1979-83. I had written about the education system in 1981 with a play called E.P. A. (Educational Priority Area), but I think that I was too close to the subject matter for it to be in anyway objective. It was only with the distance of time that I was able to assess my years as a drama teacher and wor4k out what I wanted to say about the Comprehensive education system.

Props would be things like class-room chairs, tables etc, anything schoolish. We linked our scenes with still images and prop moving; one scene would be linked by actors moving props (like chairs and tables) across the set. Still images are good because you can highlight important parts of the plot and link scenes using them.’Teechers’ is a great play, which really gets the audience involved and into the plot. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-11-10 11:07:59 Boxid IA40280020 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier I will aim to write about the techniques and strategies used in ‘Teechers’ by John Godber and my own performance of the text that help my understanding and appreciation of the play. ‘Teechers’ is a school play performed by three students based on their new Drama Teacher and follows events that may or may not have happened over his first month or so in the School. It is a clever and insightful comedy, which employs a lot of the dramatical techniques I have learnt in my drama course.Our young actors were simply mesmerised (a true achievement in a world of 19 second focus!) and completely involved and inspired. What a wonderful update to captivate a new generation who can instantly empathise & recognise themselves, their lives, the people in it and the challenges life brings.

Mrs. Hudson – the headmistress, called Mrs. Parry in the play, loud and large with a terrible dress sense. Much of the subject matter in the play is based entirely on my own experience, and when Nixon leaves Whitewall at the end of the play-within-a-play, to join St Georges, I was almost certainly reflecting on my own time in teaching, and my eventual departure to run a theatre company in Hull that I had never heard of. 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. We’re delighted to announce that, with the kind permission of John Godber, we are making available to schools our 2018 archive recording of Teechers. Access will be free of charge to teachers while theatres remain closed as a result of COVID-19.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_edition The script has been modernised too which includes mentions of Zoom, Covid, Wordle and there’s even the occasional TikTok dance thrown in for good measure; these references landed well within an audience of all ages. 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. The tik Tok dances are a genius way to engage today’s young people and for them to instantly connect and feel part of the Whitewall world. 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. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.The cast were so warm, encouraging and generous with their time, sharing advice and their experience. The cast never tire, bouncing energy off each other like fully charged Duracell batteries for the whole story & never skip a beat in sharing the ups & downs of life at Whitewall with us. 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.

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. 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. What defeats her is not Parmar’s Oggy Moxon, the lumbering school thug, nor Payne’s infatuated Salty, doing his homework on his mobile phone for want of a computer. It is the injustice of an education system that favours the privileged. Over the road, St George’s private school flourishes while the Whitewall kids are abandoned. A raucous comedy ends on a note of bitter, wordless fury. Sara Howlett switched perfectly between the intimidating youth Hobby to the newly qualified Miss Nixon; it was impressive to watch the teacher grow in confidence as she found her feet and overcame all obstacles and insults presented to her. Howlett gave great depth to this character, enabling us all to fondly reminisce on teachers that positively impacted our own educational journey, no matter how long ago that may have been. Hilarious, high energy and full-blooded, Teechers Leavers ‘22 brings to life an array of terrifying teachers and hopeless pupils through the eyes of Salty, Gail and Hobby; three Year 11 students facing a scary world, armed only with imagination and a joy of theatre.It was a small cast of just three, and they each had a plethora of uniquely devised roles up their sleeves, differentiating clearly as they portrayed each student and teacher represented throughout the text. Sara Howlett, Sophie Bullivant and Laura Castle have my upmost respect for their continuous energy and superb stage presence as they performed such an extensive amount of text without a single break between them. 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. Find sources: "Teechers"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( July 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) 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.