Smokey Studios

Smokey Studios

By David DoucetteFictionDrama
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Smokey Studios episodes

  • 1. Hallway ▶️
    Hallway
    David Doucette
    Randal is a foreign English teacher in Japan. He works in an all-girls high school that has 5000 students. His class, curated without his knowledge, is made up of the worst 50. He can't take it anymore. He walks the hallway in slippers, having just given his boss his notice. A once very welcoming Japanese staff will now not look him in the eye. And there's two weeks left.
    18 min
  • 2. Classroom ▶️
    Classroom
    David Doucette

    Remember that teacher that the students, even the good ones, ridiculed and tormented. That same teacher that kept coming back again and again and took the abuse year after year. Randal will not be that teacher. But then Randal was betrayed, underhandedly assigned these terrible students by his co-teacher and he thought, confidant, Minnesota Joe.

    22 min
  • 3. Resignation ▶️
    3. Resignation
    David Doucette

    Randal ventures into his boss Kawakami’s office, a building under the pines. Randal didn’t know the place was off-limits but once inside, in his street shoes, he doesn’t need to be told. He feels it. Kawikami-san does not plead with Randal to stay, nor does he offer any adjustment to the classroom situation. Randal feels cornered into giving his resignation notice.

    24 min
  • 4. Banishment ▶️
    4. Banishment
    David Doucette

    Randal has not been a model guest in his host country. In the state he finds himself in, he draws a conclusion: actions have consequences. As he burns the high-school toilet paper, he sees himself behind his cottage that night, beyond the tennis court. Why did he knock on his landlady’s door? Because he was outplayed by circumstance. And it put him under the moon where frogs begin to sing forevermore.

    0 min

  • Dead In Japan is written and produced by David Doucette at Smokey Studios.

    Contact www.smokeystudios.ca

    Thank you for listening.

    18 min