Close the Door so it Can't Get in Your Room

Youth Production - Drama

Written by a former teacher, this play suggests an answer to that hard-to-answer question: What makes a good teacher? Paul Bennett has many struggles his first year as a teacher—lazy students, indifferent students, rebellious students, flirtatious students, irate parents, indifferent parents and indifferent faculty members. Bennett's biggest struggle, however, is within himself: "Am I doing any good as a teacher?" he asks. "Should I quit and go into some other work?" The author, a veteran educator in North Dakota schools, has given us a play that will tingle the emotions and tickle the laugh box of everyone who has anything to do with education—teachers, administrators, students, parents and taxpayers.