{"id":850,"date":"2019-05-28T21:44:33","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T21:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=850"},"modified":"2019-05-28T21:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T21:44:33","slug":"teachers-playground","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=850","title":{"rendered":"TEACHERS&#8217; PLAYGROUND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>TEACHERS&#8217; PLAYGROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Landor Theatre, May 2006 and Greyfriars Kirk House, Edinburgh Fringe, August 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Teachers-playground-Flyer.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Teachers-playground-Flyer-210x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Teachers-playground-Flyer-210x300.jpeg 210w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Teachers-playground-Flyer-716x1024.jpeg 716w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Teachers-playground-Flyer.jpeg 1722w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by Clea Langton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cast:&nbsp; James McKendrick, Andrew Wyld, Kristian Sartori, Julie Ford, Caroline&nbsp;Boulton, Sukhraj Dhillon, St. John Costelloe, Mike Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the staff room of a London secondary school, the teachers plot to rid themselves of their bullying headteacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Smart and on a familiar enough topic to generate laughs throughout.&#8221;<\/em> <strong>Three Weeks (Edinburgh)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Teachers-Newspaper-Smaller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Teachers-Newspaper-Smaller-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Teachers-Newspaper-Smaller-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Teachers-Newspaper-Smaller-1024x696.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Teachers-Newspaper-Smaller-440x300.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Teachers-Newspaper-Smaller.jpg 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Above: Rehearsal photo from Teachers Playground&nbsp;which featured in the Times Educational Supplement, in an article about schools related plays up at the Edinburgh Fringe that year. (The title &#8216;Massacre at the prom&#8217; refers to another play)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEACHERS&#8217; PLAYGROUND Landor Theatre, May 2006 and Greyfriars Kirk House, Edinburgh Fringe, August 2006. Directed by Clea Langton. Cast:&nbsp; James McKendrick, Andrew Wyld, Kristian Sartori, Julie Ford, Caroline&nbsp;Boulton, Sukhraj Dhillon, St. John Costelloe, Mike Williams. In the staff room of a London secondary school, the teachers plot to rid themselves of their bullying headteacher. &#8220;Smart &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/?page_id=850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TEACHERS&#8217; PLAYGROUND&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-850","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/850\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelrossplaywright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}