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Zusatztext Ravenhill is one of the most arresting talents to have arrived in the British theatre during the 1990s Informationen zum Autor Mark Ravenhill is one of the most distinctive contemporary UK playwrights. He burst on to the theatre scene in 1996 with the huge hit Shopping and Fucking . He has continued to garner critical acclaim for plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids , Mother Clap's Molly House , Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat , The Cut , Product , pool (no water) , Citizenship , Ten Plagues , The Coronation of Poppea , Candide , Faust is Dead , Handbag , A Life in Three Acts , A Life of Galileo and Over There . Klappentext It will be the biggest send off any teacher has ever had. No teacher is as loved. After 45 years as a dedicated teacher, Edward is looking forward to the imminent celebration to mark his retirement.But his home is under siege. A mob of angry students have gathered. A brick has been thrown through the window, he and his wife haven't left the house for six days, and now his estranged daughter has arrived with her own questions. Why would they attack the most popular teacher in the school? The Cane explores power, control, identity and gender as well as considering the major failure of the echo-chamber of liberalism.A play about the consequences of control and how we will no longer remain silenced after years of normalised power games. Zusammenfassung It will be the biggest send off any teacher has ever had. No teacher is as loved. After 45 years as a dedicated teacher, Edward is looking forward to the imminent celebration to mark his retirement.But his home is under siege. A mob of angry students have gathered. A brick has been thrown through the window, he and his wife haven’t left the house for six days, and now his estranged daughter has arrived with her own questions. Why would they attack the most popular teacher in the school? The Cane explores power, control, identity and gender as well as considering the major failure of the echo-chamber of liberalism....
