flp54a:What i Did At School Today by John Mee - Smaller Cast

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Synopsis

Summary Performance History
Formerly "Knock and Wait"
25/02/2010 3 x amateur by Old Town Theatre Company, Swindon
Art Centre, Swindon 2010
Nunthorpe Players, Middlesborough 2011
Wyvern Theatre, Wiltshire 2011
Parkend Players, Gloucestershire 2013
Hounslow Light Opera and Drama 2013
Eversden Players, May 2017

Genre
Comedy Farce

Script Notes
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Synopsis

Lloyd George Junior and Infants has had an inspection, and the report's not good. The scheming head is only concerned with sucking up to anyone who’ll enhance his CV, and the all-female staff are either too disgruntled, too lazy or too naive to care. Then in walks a handsome new supply teacher and everyone suddenly falls over to win his attention. Shocked to find the girl he loved and lost at Uni working there, can he re-kindle the flame?

What could possibly go on in a school staff room other than meetings, marking and making coffee?

This is a version of the play without the children's roles. See flp54 for full version.

NB: Contains some swearing and adult humour

The Cast List

Maxine McManus: School caretaker. Late forties plus. Single. Always irritated. Hates everybody and everything.
Mrs Jubb: School secretary. Mid-sixties. Widowed. Subservient, dithery and doddery.
Clive Beasley: Head teacher. Mid-forties. Married. Anal and pompous. Full of his own importance.
Dan Thomson: Year 6 supply teacher. Mid-thirties. Single. Smart, sporty, good-looking, decent.
Kate Faraday: Year 5 teacher. Mid-thirties. Single. Dependable, professional, dedicated, maternal.
Jenny Peasgood: Year 4 teacher. Early twenties. Very single. Hopeless at everything. Frightened of children.
Liz Nicholas: Year 3 teacher. Around fifty. Serial divorcee. Large and loud. A big appetite for food and men!

SMALL SPEAKING PARTS (1M+1F, 1M)

The Smedley-Allens: Mid-thirties nouveau-riche parents. (Act II only)
Councillor Tate: Middle-aged Chair of Governors. (Act II only)