Guest Blog: Playwright Alex MacKeith On Education and SCHOOL PLAYFebruary 15, 2017School Play is set in the headteacher's office of St Barnabas' Primary School on 5 July 2017, the day SATs results are released. The headteacher, Jo Fell, knows that these results will determine the school's future as well as her own: over the course of one day her impulse to retain control brings her into conflict with her staff and superiors.