The first thing I have to say is that it's very short. I finished it in about ten minutes, but I'd gladly spend an hour just rereading it. It was that good. I'd definitely recommend it to just about anyone.
It's a play, and it's about a teacher named Andrew Crocker-Harris, known as the Crock amongst his students who, due to failing personal health, has had to resign from his post as a teacher. It is very short - it only takes place over the span of an afternoon - but it holds so many delicious parts. There is the student who worries that he won't pass his class, there's the wife who's been cheating on him, there's the man she's been cheating with, there's the young teacher who will replace him, as well as his wife, there's the headmaster who seems glad to be rid of him.
And then there's the moment when the worrying student gives his teacher an old copy of Agamemnon as a farewell gift.
Damn near brought me to tears, it did.
So go read it. It won't take long, and you'll be glad you did.
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