The Discipline Committee

Synopsis

A play in two acts

Set in a residential private school for boys, this play begins with two male teachers interviewing a senior student accused of an act of violence.

The teachers' initial confidence in their ability to extract a confession dissipates in the face of the youth's cold hostility, and it becomes clear that something more sinister is going on than first appeared.

The situation is saved by the intervention of a young female teacher who has simply been sitting in on the proceedings: she interweaves three stories with a cross-examination that eventually reveals the truth.