Book Description

(The action takes place in a classroom at the top of a modern three-storey block at a comprehensive school somewhere in the Midlands. The whole of one wall is made up of windows and this looks out towards the audience and the imaginary playground below. The far wall has the usual informatory posters and wall charts on it and at the back of the room there are built-in cupboards reaching almost to the ceiling. At the front of the classroom there is the teacher's modern flat desk and a moveable blackboard which is slanted inwards towards the audience. The audience are able to see a cross section of the wall at the other end of the room and out into a small foyer outside, where there are two glass doors at the top of the stairs quite close to a radiator which juts out towards them. There are two other doors leading to boys and girls’ toilets and a further door leading into the empty classroom of Mr. Jenks next door.