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Marking Time

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  2w, 3m

Michael Snelgrove

Marking Time
by Michael Snelgrove

In a tiny, tatty room in a residential teachers' centre, Team B are up to their eyebrows in A level English Literature marking. Elsewhere in the building, the dreaded Team A are coping far better with their marking band guidelines, matrix grids and m…

Marking Time

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    2w, 3m

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Summary
In a tiny, tatty room in a residential teachers' centre, Team B are up to their eyebrows in A level English Literature marking. Elsewhere in the building, the dreaded Team A are coping far better with their marking band guidelines, matrix grids and marked pilot samples and managing to spend plenty of time in the bar; Team B, led by the far-from-perfect Howard, lurch from disaster to disaster. Doors slam, tempers are lost and personalities crumble as the situation becomes ever more chaotic.
M3 (20s-50s) F2 (30s-40s)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A room

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Michael Snelgrove

Michael Snelgrove

Michael Snelgrove wrote his first play Belladonna (based on Coleridge's Christabel) for the Maidenhead Players. It won Best Original Play and came second in the Open Class at the Maidenhead Drama Festival. Two years later, he wrote Definitely Eric Geddis for the same company ...

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