Badnuff

Synopsis

It's Jay's first day at St Peter's and two things are clear - one, she doesn't fit in and two, neither does anyone else. Everyone has a story that they want to tell - Patsy, the 'baby borrower'; Brendan, the motor-mouth perve and live-wire Lanny, who could erupt at any time. What's Jay's story and why won't she tell it?

Our Review:

23 March 2004

It's a long time since the classroom drama reared it's combative head. In the 70s and 80s, pupils were seen as sympathetic rebels with a cause. Times though have changed and Richard Davidson's blackboard scruffs are hardly nascent revolutionaries. Rather, they pose the most immense philosophical question. When do you give up on people? Is there such a thing as innate badness?

Richard Davidson's Badnuff shows exactly why Soho commands the young audience loyalty it does. It's exhilarating, urgent and as disturbing as it authentically reflects aspects of our troubled society. Davidson does it, too, through a theme with which we can all relate: anger. One of the most potent things about Badnuff is Davidson's portrayal of just how close to breaking point we can all come.

Tom, head of a fictional PRU (pupil referral unit) has reason enough. He's just been turned down by Maggie, a fellow teacher he thought was in love with him and he's ...

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billy - 8 May 2012:

i felt that this was amazing. After watching it my drama group acted it and found it easy and easy to perform. Thumbs up to the actors (Y) (Y) ...

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