18 May to 3 June 2006
8 March to 31 March 2007
Cromwell Road Theatre, 27A Cromwell Road, South Yarra

by Steve Wheat
director Beng Oh
with Hannah Bolt, Chris Broadstock, Leon Dürr, Craig Goddard, Liz Kirk, Bruce Langdon, Glaston Toft, Steve Wheat and Deb Vanderwerp
lighting Matthew Barber
stage manager Simone Baker

Simon has just completed his Bachelor of Education (drama) and, armed with a satchel of newly created lesson plans, he nervously plunges into his new life as a secondary school teacher.

The play begins as Simon hesitantly steps into that inner of all sanctums, the staffroom, where he discoverers a most sacred place: a refuge where teachers, freed of the restraints of instruction and supervision and discipline, outpour their exasperations and frustrations in the most extraordinary of ways.

From the clichéd sexist phys ed teacher to the anally retentive deputy-principal to the eclectically eccentric science teacher to the idealistically energetic arts co-ordinator to the bored physics teacher who is way past his use-by-date, Simon discovers that it’s not the just the students he needs to worry about!