Ever had the smell of disinfectant in your nostrils, the taste of Space Dust on your tongue and the sound of Duran Duran ringing in your ears…? Then this play is for you…

Meet Hobby, Salty and Gail. Three bored, disillusioned 16 year olds in a large comprehensive school sometime in the late eighties whose lives are transformed by the arrival of ‘a brand new, sparkling clean, not even out of the box’ drama teacher. He encourages them to put together a play about life in their school which they perform with enthusiasm and imagination, playing several different pupils and staff members each. It’s witty, fast paced, and fabulously funny, punctuated with some wonderfully nostalgic eighties sounds…a must for anyone who has ever been to school…

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Reviews

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School play is class act.

Having never seen John Godber´s Teechers, I was very much looking forward to the production at Lincoln Drill Hall and I wasn´t disappointed.

The cast of three from Indulgence Theatre of Lincoln played a multitude of parts within a set made up of tables, desks, chairs and lockers typical of a 1980s school and to the sound of music from that era.

Hobby, Salty and Gail were three bored and disillusioned 16–year–olds who were inspired by the arrival of a new drama teacher.

He had encouraged them to put on a play about life in the comprehensive school with each of them playing several different pupils and members of staff.

The play, directed at pace by Jo Hollingworth, was witty and entertaining and stretched the cast´s acting abilities.

Matthew Morrissey was excellent as Salty, the over zealous schoolboy who never wanted to learn much until his last days at school. He also played the drama teacher who was full of wonderful new ideas.

Louise Ross (Gail) and Mala Selvon (Hobby) were wonderful as a duo besotted with their drama teacher. They also played members of staff and pupils.

There were scenes about staging the Mikado, the school dance, the timetable, the posh school up the road and lessons.

The only problem I had was with the harsh lighting that hurt my eyes throughout but that didn´t detract from the quality of the performance by a local theatre company I hope to see more of.

DAB ˜ Newark Advertiser, 09 November 2007

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Having been set up to indulge its own members, Indulgence Theatre Company indulged en masse with its wry look at school life.

Their version of Teechers was a lesson for us all – not only in slick, stylish and stunning performance standards but in the best days of our lives.

It was a class act in taking John Godber´s intentions from page to stage.

Literally hundreds of punters were transported back to their own school days as three quality actors pulled down their knee–high socks, loosened their ties and sharpened their graffiti skills to take on more than 20 differing roles in the fast paced look at life in a typical 80´s city comprehensive.

Director Jo Hollingworth made no apology for the setting, the music choice, the costume, the attitudes, the anything. We are Indulgence after all and it´s my play, I´ll do what I like, she commented.

What she did was bloody marvellous as was pretty well everything turned in by Matthew Morrisey, Louise Ross and Mala Selvon in their demanding roles.

Never having chance to leave the stage, let alone take their eye off the ball, the trio remained on sharp focus as they delivered great characterisations, very slick dialogue and tireless action.

A cast of three was small but perfectly formed with each one excelling in their multi-facetted character switches, Matthew especially impressing with his Queen tribute, Louise coming scarily close to the archetypal caretaker and Mala proving to be the epitome of the diva headmistress.

Jason Hippisley, Market Rasen Mail, 06 November 2007