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Skyvers by Barry Reckord (1926-2011)

Directed by Mary Peate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01806nx

first broadcast - BBC Radio 3, Drama on 3, Sunday 11 December
2011
rebroadcast - BBC Radio 3, Drama on 3, Sunday 18 Nov 2012

1960s London. A group of lads spends the
last few days at their sink London comprehensive. What will become of the would-be footballer, the ambitious chancer or
the boy on probation? First produced at The Royal Court Theatre in 1963. Director Pam Brighton, to whom the play
belongs, according to Reckord, says 'When I first came across Skyvers in 1970, it struck me as a powerful, relevant and
hugely articulate work...How had Barry, a Jamaican teacher in a London comprehensive, described so accurately the
alienation and rage of South London boys? The entrapment of both boys and girls bounded by sex, violence and either dull
dead-end jobs or crime was described so perfectly by Barry.'

Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah has curated new
radio productions of three 20th Century plays for Radio 3's Drama on 3 and Skyvers is the last in the series. The three
plays are introduced by Kwei-Armah, who describes how each of the writers influenced his own development as an actor and
playwright. Kwame is currently based in Baltimore where he is Artistic Director of Center Stage Theater.

Cragge - Danny Worters
Brook - Jason Maza
Colman - Abdul Salis
Adams - Rikki Lawton
Jordan - Theo
Barklem-Biggs
Helen - Joan Iyiola
Sylvia - Shannon Tarbet
Freeman - Carl Prekopp
Webster - Gerard
McDermott
Headmaster - Paul Moriarty

Duration - 1 hour 15 minutes

Format: MPEG Audio
Size: 68.89 MB
Bit rate: 128 kbps
Audio sample rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: 2 (stereo)
Encoding
Settings: CBR

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Michael Billington on Skyvers in The Guardian:

"Other dramatists such as Nigel Williams in Class Enemy went on to explore the failure of the system to
cope with those at the bottom of the heap. But Reckord got there first and while it is tempting to say times have
changed, new figures show that up to 16 million adults today have the reading and writing skils of primary
schoolchildren... a piece that proves that the best drama offers vital social evidence."

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http://www.radiodramareviews.com/id845.html

Radio Drama Reviews
Online - Skyvers by Barry Reckord

BBC Radio 3, 11 December 2011
 
Mary Peate's revival of Barry
Reckord's 1963 play - the first for radio - made its intentions clear by establishing a stark contrast between the group
of 15-year-old lads seeing out their last days at an inner-city comprehensive school, and the teachers purporting to
work with them. The boys were cynical, disillusioned, and desperate to leave, believing that formal education had been
of little benefit to them. They spent most of their class-time making jokes about sex, or competing with one another in
tests of strength, both physical and verbal. Their head teacher (Paul Moriarty) claimed that he had "enough on
[his] plate," as he tried to disseminate the public school ethos in his school, by creating athletic houses,
organizing prize-giving ceremonies, and claiming that education "gave [his students] character." He had no
empathy for his students' plight, as they saw out their days before going into the kind of employment - the docks, or an
apprenticeship - that their fathers had already determined for them.
 
As the action progressed, however, it
became clearer and clearer that the teachers and students behaved in much the same way. The head's sole solution to any
disciplinary problem was the cane - preferably administered in public for maximum humiliation (in 1963 corporal
punishment was still allowed in state schools). Likewise Brooke (Jason Maza) reinforced his position as the
self-appointed leader of the gang of lads by threatening violence. It did not matter to him whether he bullied boys or
girls (in one sequence the boys successfully goad Helen (Joan Iyiola) and her friend Sylvia (Shannon Tarbet) into coming
with them into the graveyard for sex); what mattered to Brooke was the feeling of power that came from enforcing one's
authority.
 
Any resistance to this tyranny was largely futile. While Cragge (Danny Worters) believed that
Brooke was not cut out to be a leader, he seldom resisted Brooke's authority. On the contrary, Cragge deliberately
played a role - by seeming disinterested in everything, especially his school work - so as to be considered
"unmasculine." Encouraged by the fair-minded teacher Freeman (Carl Prekopp), Cragge discovered some latent
creative talents, as he wrote a concise and vivid report of a house soccer match for the school magazine. However the
head teacher had little time for Cragge; as a member of the gang who consciously resisted his authority, Cragge was
nothing more than "scum."
 
Peate invited us to take pleasure in the boys' colloquial language,
which was largely comprised of short statements, resembling a series of verbal sparring matches. They enjoyed each
other's company, even though much of their humour was consciously sexist (they continually referred to "getting
off" or "doing" women). However we have to remember that this was the early 1960s, a time when the boys
still feared authority-figures such as parents and police officers, and when pre-marital sex was still the exception
rather than the rule.
 
Nonetheless, Peate's production painted a bleak picture of school life in the early
1960s. The overall mood was summed up by the mournful linking music between each scene, played on piano and synthesizer,
suggesting that the boys had little to look forward to in their future lives - even though they were only fifteen. The
situation scarcely seems to have improved today. Recent figures claim that up to 16 million adults have the reading and
writing abilities of primary school students, suggesting that the education system is still failing them, despite
endless government reforms.
 
Sometimes recreating recent - i.e. twentieth century - history for radio is more
difficult than it might be for earlier periods. Peate's production was utterly convincing, conjuring up a society which,
although remote in many ways from our own (especially in its morality), nonetheless remains uncomfortably familiar.

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