The producer and director are delighted with their television play about a comprehensive school. It seems truthful, authentic, really lifelike. But as rehearsals progress, a tense difference of opinion emerges between the author and the young schoolboy actor.
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Peter Clay
Neil, TV producer
Alun Lewis
Andrew, TV director
Matthew Guinness
Martin, TV writer
Anny Tobin
Jenny, production secretary
Phil Rowlands
Ben, production assistant
Rob Edwards
Malcolm, actor
Jennifer Lonsdale
Julie, actress
John Ringham
Paul Bennett, actor
Paul Easom
Alan, a teenager
Jason Kemp
Piers, a teenager
Maureen Nelson
First chaperone
Sally Lewis
Second chaperone
Craig McFarlane
Damien
Paul Tropea
The Storer
