Lydia

Discuss the use of lighting and sound in “teechers”. How did it add to the plays intentions?

Lighting and sound played a big role in the production “teechers”. The song by Pink Floyd, we don’t need no education, was played at the beginning of the production. This was to show what type of school Whitehall is. The audience gets an understanding that the school may not be posh, the children don’t care about education and the teachers are struggling. When there was a school disco the children pretended to be teachers by using dance movements from the 80’s. This was to show the audience that pupils do not dance like teachers. The song hit me baby one more time, by Britney spears, was used as this song is from the 90’s. Also later on in the next scene Mr Nixon, the new drama teacher, hits Oggy Moxon (the hard nut at Whitehall). The song hit me baby one more time is used again. This is supposed to be comical as Nixon is hitting a pupil just as the song says “hit me”. At the dance Gail, a student who fancies Mr Nixon, goes up to Nixon at the dance and throws herself in his arms. The song lady in red is played whilst the pair is dancing and the tempo is changed half way during the song to show the audience that Gail wants more to happen. In the scenes where there is only one person on the stage, the spotlight is always on them, this draws the audience’s attention to that one person.