28 July – 1 August

The highly acclaimed JOHN GODBER COMPANY tour to Bath with update of hilarious modern classic TEECHERS.

Bristling with teenage swagger and outlandish imagination, the production is a joyful yet biting look at education, aspiration and inequality, and is performed by Yorkshire actors Jo Patmore, Levi Payne, and Sophie Suddaby.

Salty, Gail, and Hobby use their BTEC Performing Arts exam to showcase their work. What follows is a funny, fast-moving, hard-hitting account of life at Whitewall Academy as they play staff, students and site premises managers, including the new drama teacher Miss Nixon, who has helped get them into drama and changed their lives.

But as Salty, Gail and Hobby conclude their performance and leave state education, it appears that Miss Nixon is moving on too . . . to the local private school.

Teechers is a fast-paced comedy with a vital message about the entrenched inequalities of the UK’s education system that are still as punchy, provocative and entertaining as ever forty years later.

Written by John Godber and directed by Jane Thornton, Godber’s comedy masterpiece has been reset for 2026 bringing fresh energy to a beloved classic.

TEECHERS appears at the Theatre Royal Bath from Tuesday 28 to Saturday 1 August. For tickets visit the Theatre Royal Bath website at theatreroyal.org.uk or contact the Box Office on 01225 448844

Photography credit: Ian Hodgson

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