The Cane

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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 havent 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.

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Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation * Time Out *
There are few stage authors writing more interestingly than Mark Ravenhill ... He is - it is now yet more evident - a searing, intelligent, disturbing sociologist with a talent for satirical dialogue and a flair for sexual sensationalism. * Financial Times *
Ravenhill is one of the most arresting talents to have arrived in the British theatre during the 1990s * Financial Times *

Author Bio

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.