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"You give them an education; I give them the wherewithal to resist it." This multi layered play features an unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university; a maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher; a headmaster obsessed with results and a history teacher who thinks he’s a fool. Staffroom rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke insistent questions about history and how you teach it; about education and its purpose. 

 

 "Redbridge Stage Company presented an assured version of Bennett's plaudit-heaped play...The boys' ensemble worked very well...Directed with a keen and experienced eye by Christine Keates, it was well cast ...This is a fine piece that played well in Redbridge Stage's hands" 

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  Director: Chris Keates

 

Cast

Akhtar

Daniel Mansour

Crowther

Aaron Richards

Dakin

 James Daybell

Lockwood 

David Kingsmill

Posner

Grant Leat

Rudge

Phillip Rowlands 

Scripps 

 Thomas Dale

Timms 

 Paul Jackson

Headmaster 

 David Bennett

Mrs Lintott 

 Liz Calnan

Hector 

 John Chapman

Irwin 

 Martin Porter

TV Director

Nicholas Ball

 

 

Kenny Award Winners

Best Actor

John Chapman

 

Best Male Supporting Performance in a Play

Grant Leat

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