Roll call in variant settings

Somehow these two performances, clever in their different ways, never occurred to me in conjunction until my meandering mind brought them together last night. Each speaks to an exaggeration of highly variant cultures and histories but through a profoundly recognizable ritual known to all students through time and across the globe - roll call.

Rowan Atkinson's The School Master. Play's off the old English public school tradition.


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Key & Peele's Substitute Teacher. The inner city teacher meets the suburban high school in roll call.


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