The class play we chose to produce was Teechers. It’s about a comprehensive school with its fair share of problems. A number of undisciplined teenagers go to Whitehall high school. The production shows a new drama teacher arrival, till he leaves. The drama teacher, Mr. Nixon, becomes very close to three individuals at the school, Salty, Gail and Hobby.

A member of our class, Sophie, I thought performed her character brilliantly. She played a big student, with a careless attitude toward everything, tomboy personality and hungry for anything. This character was called Hobby. She was one of the three main characters in the play. This student was best friends with the complete opposite characterizations as her, called Gail. What Sophie did was very impressive to show how Hobby was. She always had a mars bar with her to show her hunger and need for food. When she sat down her legs were wide, like how a boy would sit, and she wore baggy trousers to represent this too, she did this to show what sort of girl she is, and also what sort of things she’s into, as ‘girly girls’ like to wear skirts and possibly tighter trousers. To show her embarrassment toward Gail, she kept rolling her eyes, this is because normally when someone is fed up or annoyed with another, they would roll their eyes, so she tried to portray this to the audience.

Lisbeth