Terrific thriller set at a Catholic all-boys school, which are inherently creepy environments. The kids at this one are becoming increasingly violent towards one another. Two rival teachers may have something to do with it – one is an old geezer who likes to think he gets along with everyone despite actually being full of hate, the other is a strict disciplinarian hated by the students. A young gym teacher, a former student, gets torn between them.
This is a play of atmosphere and increasing unease as opposed to gore talks of something going wrong, sudden outbursts of violence (a kid loses an eye), climaxing in a suicide. It’s really good – and is a shame Marasco didn’t kick on to more of a career. (He had no more plays produced, wrote some novels, the best known of which was Burnt Offering. He died when only 62 years old.)
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