Monday 29 August 2022

THEATRE REVIEW: Bad Teacher - Underbelly, Bistro Square (Daisy), Edinburgh.


This one woman show presented on a tiny stage in a stuffy crowded room, on the last day of the Fringe, by Queens Of Cups, was at one and the same time and ode to and a detestation of the modern teaching profession... warts an' all! 

Twenty-something teacher, yes, a "bad teacher", simply because she is still wanting to use her free time to party, get drunk, do coke, have a good time, and find sexual fulfilment, and not yet ready to wear the brogues and tweed skirt; is a drama teacher at a high-achieving sixth form college.

Fantasy and fiction intertwine in her monologue as her internal thoughts mix with reality, but we are clearly shown the failings of a system that should be there to help and protect, and by the end of the show, despite not wanting to like our protagonist, (she is not a likeable chaarcter), we can do nothing else but emote with her, and be on her side. 

If you don't know anything about being a teacher in the current climate, then this will be a real eye-opener for you... Ofsted, Parents' Evenings, Safeguarding, and suicide are all given the runaround, interspersed with a deal of female kick-ass BPE ("Big Pussy Energy").

Reviewer - Matthew Dougall
on - 29.8.22

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