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Teechers Play Analysis

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Teechers, a play written by John Godber in 1987, bases itself on youth and the playwrights own perspective of the corrupt education system. His poignant introduction to the text of the play begins, "Teechers was designed to be played by three actors, multi-role-playing twenty other parts in a play-within-a-play format.” Everything about the play is reduced to the bare minimum: actors, stage, and audience." And this ideology of "essentials" is the centre piece for the play. He wittily applies a Brechtian approach with three pupils, Salty, Gail, and Hobby who are able to use this versatility from multi-rolling in portraying many characters served with a platter of comedic and melodramatic nature. On a serious note though, the play is Somewhat …show more content…

As Gail, I used characterisation, associating myself on how Gail and girls with her personality would act i.e. when Salty talks about another girl; I showed facial expressions of jealousy- putting on a domineering tone when Salty lied. Since Godber wrote her demeanour as flirtatious so when Salty was flirting with another girl, a jealous reaction sparked whereby Gail stormed off and provided marking the moment of her displaying anger for dramatic effect and to portray to the audience how girls get hurt with the added benefit of a comedic/ melodramatic stint of ‘storming off’. This was included because Gail, Salty and Hobby as teenagers, tend to ‘over exaggerate’ both in their reality and in the play. The melodrama within the Monday morning scene reflects most of the Play itself, as teens are known to exaggerate and apply eccentricity because it’s an attention seeking and competitive period of their life. This exaggeration is especially seen when they try to impersonate others, which the trio do throughout the play with their multi-rolling. To summarise, these three teenagers are both dramatic in their own lives and throughout the play which we see in their acting style. In the second scene I used a handful of common gestures as Mr. Nixon to indicate the feeling of being uncomfortable such as touching of the neck and tugging my shirt due to the girl’s explicit questions also including an awkward emotion by looking nervous and shaking my legs as depiction. Another peer played Gail in the scene, using the role-play strategy. She articulated Gail with an overly annoying demeanour, swooning over to Mr. Nixon, repeatedly asking questions with such a high paced and girly tone, the expression on Mr. Nixon’s face was expressed as exceedingly disgruntled, helping the audience feet empathy yet hilarity. For my final scene as Doug the caretaker, I used voice

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