Lifelike

The producer and director are delighted with their television play about a comprehensive school. It seems truthful, authentic, really lifelike. But as rehearsals progress, a tense difference of opinion emerges between the author and the young schoolboy actor.

• John ChallenWriter
• Peter BartlettDirector

• Peter ClayNeil, TV producer
• Alun LewisAndrew, TV director
• Matthew GuinnessMartin, TV writer
• Anny TobinJenny, production secretary
• Phil RowlandsBen, production assistant
• Rob EdwardsMalcolm, actor
• Jennifer LonsdaleJulie, actress
• John RinghamPaul Bennett, actor
• Paul EasomAlan, a teenager
• Jason KempPiers, a teenager
• Maureen NelsonFirst chaperone
• Sally LewisSecond chaperone