Role:           Co-producer/Co-Director/Salty
Where:        New Mercury Theater
Playwright:  John Godber

Playbill

We continued to produce in this church basement.  We did Teechers.  It's a very hard play to read. It took us a lot to...(clip) we'd read that it was such a monster hit in England and then we got the script and it just didn't make any sense at all. (laughs) We were like, "what the hell is it?"  Then we got three actors just to read it and then it came alive and we understood it and it was just amazing.  It's three actors playing about thirty roles.  The conceit is that three kids are graduating high school with their class and as a parting gift to their drama teacher they do a play about themselves and their fellow students and their teachers, about how this one teacher, the drama teacher made a difference in their lives; and THEN betrays them by leaving.  So these kids play themselves and play this teacher, Mr. Nixon, and play all the other teachers and students and they skewer everybody.  It's touching and funny and impressive that actors can do all those roles.  It's a very fun ride.  And it was a BIG hit for us in Seattle, so much so that we took it to festival later on.  I took the role of Salty. When I first directed it I didn't take the rolebecause I just wanted to direct, and then I played Salty in the second one, as well as produced and directed.JM.com 2007

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"The play is a hoot, with a serious message (all kids deserve a good education) but is never preachy. The acting by Liane Davidson, James Marsters and Lori Spicer is detailed, assured and hilarious in a production directed deftly by Marsters."  Wayne Johnson · Seattle Times · January 27, 1992