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Free for All - extract from a new verse play by Richard O'Brien
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Free for All
An extract from a new verse play by Richard O'Brien
Kerry, a lifelong union rep, has been persuaded by her daughter Martha to attend an open evening for a new free school about to open in her area. Attempting to address some of her concerns, the school's headmaster has just compared his independent, 'Do-It-Yourself' approach to education to Kerry's own grass-roots activism.
KERRY
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