Teachers and drama educators, we’ve got a brand-new resource for your classroom! Our latest Classroom Companion for the play Techies by Mark Rigney is now live—packed with smart, flexible activities designed to help students unpack the layered, often unspoken tensions at the heart of this sharp and resonant backstage story.
Click the button above to download the guide and bring Techies into your classroom today!
Why Teach Techies?
Set in the underlit world of a high school tech crew, Techies is a serious comedy about power, trust, silence, and the blurry lines between truth and perception. What begins as a dryly funny workplace drama slowly unfolds into something much more complicated—and much more real.
As the tech crew prepares for a school production, alliances shift, leadership is challenged, and a rumor begins to spread. But who’s telling the truth? Who’s in charge? And who gets to decide what really happened?
With its subtle tension, razor-sharp dialogue, and deeply relatable characters, Techies invites students to engage with questions about consent, credibility, authority, and the social dynamics of trust—all within the familiar (and often chaotic) world of high school theatre.
What’s Inside the Classroom Companion?
This free teaching guide offers a variety of ways for students to engage with the script, its themes, and its characters. Inside, you’ll find:
✔ Pre-Show and Post-Show Activities that explore power structures, rumor psychology, and the tension between silence and action.
✔ Discussion Prompts that help students dig into moral ambiguity, shifting alliances, and the ethics of leadership.
✔ Thematic Explorations focused on consent, perception, loyalty, and the challenge of navigating uncertainty.
✔ Character-Based Exercises that illuminate the subtleties of behavior, motivation, and group dynamics.
✔ Creative and Reflective Projects including incident reports, rumor maps, private monologues, and redesigns of key scenes.
✔ Further Reading & Viewing recommendations that connect Techies to plays like The Crucible and Doubt, as well as to real-world social structures.
✔ Assessment Options for writing, research, and project-based learning—perfect for English, drama, or interdisciplinary classrooms.
Bring Techies to Your Classroom!
Whether your students are reading the script or watching a production, this guide offers everything you need to foster meaningful conversations, sharp analysis, and personal connections to the material.
📥 Download the Classroom Companion now and let your students dive into the quiet chaos of the tech booth—where everything is running smoothly… until it isn’t.