The Road Ahead
Part of the series Staffroom Monologues
- Duration: 15 mins
- Subtitles available
- Published: 22 May 2007
- Licence information for The Road Ahead
Summary
In The Road Ahead, written by headteacher Oliver Blond, Gillian Bevan movingly portrays a teacher who blows £30,000 on a new car.
The monologue unfolds to find her reasons for the out-of-character decision, looking at her personal and professional relationships along the way.
Staffroom Monologues is a series of four short films, each scripted by a winner of an online Teachers TV competition looking for monologues by people working in the education sector. The scripts were edited by Tony Marchant and directed by Jean Stewart.
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Comments (6)
very moving and well written
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Moving and well produced, but hardly a staffroom monologue. Could have been set in many other contexts. I was expecting a story which had to be borne of school-life, rather than one in which the main character happens to be a teacher.
Following the success of Staffroom Monologues 2007, Teachers TV are delighted to announce its back again this year. In association with the National Union of Teachers we are looking to find the best screenwriters of the staffroom.
This year's Writer Judge will be Ashley Pharoah the British television writer, co-creator of the successful drama series Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes..
To enter, budding script writers that work in education (paid or voluntary) are asked to submit a single character fictional monologue of between 800 and 1,000 words by 25 March 2008 on any aspect of school life from the perspective of someone who works in a school. For help and inspiration and to enter please visit www.teachers.tv/monologues
Helen Mussard, Community Marketing Executive
- The only shame in my opinion is that the 'making of' is tacked onto the end. Ruins the effect of the piece itself unless you hit 'stop' quickly.
(Associate)
This is excellent; both the narrative and the presentation. It got me to thinking about what is important. Are there more important things than shoes? Or cars? Or the solar system? Or are they all distractions?
I liked it.