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The headteacher’s office of a south London primary school is always busy. But today is results day and the phone won’t stop ringing. Jo, the headteacher of St Barnabas’, knows that the arrival of the school’s SA Ts results puts her job on the line. With the future of the school and its pupils at stake, Jo struggles to maintain order as her staff and superiors demand answers.
Set against the backdrop of an education system in turmoil, Alex MacKeith’s sharp, wry and timely drama asks what it means to be a primary school teacher in contemporary Britain.
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Alex MacKeith is a writer and dramaturge working in London. He recently worked as dramaturge on Julia Cranney’s award-winning drama Empty Beds (2016) which ran at the Underbelly, Edinburgh followed by a transfer to the Arcola Theatre, and with C-12 Dance Theatre on their immersive project, Watson. He has collaborated with Embolon Theatre Company on performances at Edinburgh’s Summerhall, Battersea Arts Centre and Camden People’s Theatre, and with comedy group Princes of Main on two Edinburgh shows and a webseries. He is dramaturge on Requiem for Aleppo, an original contemporary dance piece premiering at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in 2017. In 2016 he was awarded Columbia University’s theatre Scholarship for their playwriting MFA. MacKeith’s first screenplay is currently in preproduction. School Play is his playwriting debut.
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