Performance notes on our piece - John Godbers Teechers

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Supporting notes

John Godber's Teechers

Practitioner: John Godber/Hull Truck Theatre Company

Chosen skill: Acting

Part played: Salty who plays the parts off Mr.Nixon, Oggy Moxon, Teacher B, Deanie

Section 1 - clear and concise evidence of detailed exploration of the chosen practitioner and good level of understanding of their theatrical purpose. Justification of play and extract in relation to the practitioner's work.

With only having 3 members in our group, this restricted us into what play we could choose from. After reading a few of the Godber's texts (e.g. happy jack) I found that I enjoyed his plays. He writes from experience and as he says himself "I think the best kind of writing is something that comes out of yourself, there's no point writing anything unless it's felt." Through his writing I could see the depth of his understanding of the characters and their regional setting (Yorkshire).

In the play there is a lot of mulit roling, for example I play the part of Salty who plays the part of 4 other different characters just in the sections of the play we have chosen. This then gave me the challenge of having