Forgotten plays: No 7 " Skyvers (1963) by Barry Reckord
Reckord's unflinchingly honest social document pinned down the flaws in a UK education system that consigned an underclass to a dead-end future Why are there so few good plays about school life? A handful have achieved iconic status. Alan Bennett's The History Boys (2004) was once voted the nation's favourite play. Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version (1948) is a moving study of despised teacher. Nigel Williams's …