TEECHERS
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That is the gist of Teechers, and that is why the play is at times predictable and tiresome. So why would the Stage Left Theatre want to put it on? Because Teechers is also a challenging exercise in acting; and the three actors in the cast, who play a total of 21 roles, do such a fine job that they make Teechers seem almost fresh.
John Godber, the British playwright who wrote Teechers, created it for the Hull Truck Theatre Company, one of those countless small performing troupes that roam England’s backwaters in small vans, performing in union halls, schools, and other unadorned settings. The play is actually a play within a play. Salty, Gail, and Hobby, three students from Mr. Nixon’s drama class at Whitewall High School, are performing a play they wrote themselves about Mr. Nixon and the other denizens of their school.
But for the most part these three are students just waiting to have their potential tapped by someone like Mr. Nixon. And of course when Mr. Nixon gets a chance to go work at the nearby public school, well, how do such stories usually resolve such conflicts?
