Charlotte Cromie has written a new play, and I met up with her and the cast for a photoshoot at the Old Divinity School that has recently been renovated by St John’s College.
Half past five on a Friday evening, and a school’s electronic door-locking system shuts down for the weekend… with four teachers still in the staff room.
Claustrophobia sets in. Tea turns into alcohol. Ties, jackets and the ceremonies of the school day are shed, giving way to messy power plays, grievances and the desire to behave badly. But they are still haunted by the ultimate threat in their job that keeps their behaviour in check. And it isn’t the headmaster.
This brand new comic drama asks where the boundaries of professionalism lie, and how much pressure it takes to reveal the petty, paranoid, impulsive teenagers inside even the most polished individuals.
‘I have practically run the English department for the last three years, and you have bought me a bottle of wine with a screw cap.’
(Text from Camdram)
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Cast
Hattie – Grainne Dromgoole
Robin – Eduardo Strike
Mel – Fran Davis
Don – Ed Paget
Production Team
Producer – Gaia Fay Lambert
Writer / Director – Charlotte Cromie
Stage Manager – Izzy Herschmann
Associate Director – Russell Fancourt
Technical Director – Laura Wells
Publicity Designer – Ruby Douglass
Photographer – Johannes Hjorth
Carpenter – Anastasia Bruce-Jones
Assistant Stage Manager – Michaela Higham
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