Possible Clues:

• What those in the abbey are doing for the teachers and for those taking part in the future?
• What those in the abbey are doing employing teachers providing a series of lectures for those likely to play the fool
• Playing the part of the truant, for instance, from educational institute where one learns how to perform like the fool
• Take part in Government department - the one preparing those who'll create a scene in the future
• Take part in Government department ? the one preparing those who?ll create a scene in the future
• For those in future productions of West Side Story, for instance, pretending to be with the Sharks
• They playact presumably for the soaps of tomorrow?