REALITY TV culture seems to have permeated onto the stage, if the Swan Theatre Company's upcoming play Teechers is anything to go by.

Not content with enacting John Godber's realistic, gritty dramatisation of life spent teaching drama in a comprehensive, all the parts in the show, running from September 1-8, are played by real teachers, past and present.

The first time the play was staged, it had a cast of three actors, who shared more than 20 parts between them.

This production boasts six performers. The central role of the drama teacher is played by Simon Atkins, who is head of drama at Worcester King's School. Also starring is Oliver Goldfinch, formerly of Worcester Royal Grammar School, Jane Lush, from Malvern, drama lecturer at Hereford Royal National College for the Blind, Pauline Beale, a fitness and dance teacher, Julia Blois, who teaches in Birmingham, and Kara March, a Worcester primary teacher. Even the director, Brian Burton, was once a drama tutor for Shropshire Education Committee.

Using the format of an end-of-term play, it sketches a new drama teacher's progress through two terms of reluctant classes, cynical colleagues, and destructive caretakers, until he departs to the safer waters of a private school.

Shows start at 7.30pm and for tickets ring 01684 27322. The play contains bad language.