Reactions Of Barrie Keeffe's Gotcha

I feel that Barrie Keeffe has used the context for the play the way he has because everything links into the play that’s happening at the time, the play was written in 1976 and based around that. He had written it to be like a school of those days. He says ‘teachers in the school of the 70’s didn’t always give the attention in, fact if you weren’t doing sport you weren’t known’. He based it around his own school which in the 70’s were big and the children weren’t always known. People now say things have changed and you are much known in the schools but I disagree. I feel that if you aren’t fighting for attention by being ‘naughty’ or you aren’t super smart getting straight A’s and A*’s you won’t get attention.

 This play was brought out when the style ‘punk’ was out. People think that the play Gotcha is very much like punk because it’s different and out there and in the 70’s people never really spoke about what happened in the schools. The song that is being played at the start was brought out when Gotcha was and Barrie has used it because the play and the song are both angry, loud and short.