Short Supply (rehearsed reading)

Short Supply charts the developing relationship of Alice and Robin in a secondary school that is going through a downturn. Set over the course of an academic year we see Robin help Alice land a permanent job in the English department and the two of them go on to deal with the year’s events. Parents evenings, field trips, Prom and Year 9 Key Stage 3 Drama. Drawing from real life experiences in the classes and staff rooms of Cumbria “Short Supply” looks at a profession that is often undervalued, overworked and increasingly unattractive if the teacher retention figures can’t pull out of their alarmingly steady nosedive. The play is at heart a romantic comedy fueled by bad circumstance, bad timing, typically bad English communication and stubborn pride.