Lyric Hammersmith Studio

30th March 2012 / 3rd, 4th, 5th October 2012

 

Producer: Waifs and Strays

Director: Barney Norris

 

March Cast: Victoria Gee, Lisa Kerr, Anna Popplewell

October Cast: Letty Butler, Victoria Gee, Naomi Petersen

 

Short play "Schnapps" in response to Owen Jones' book

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class as part

of Lyric Lounge.

 

"Jake Brunger gets the details of the routine humiliation and rigid

hierarchy that surround a minimum wage job spot on. This is

assured, engaged writing and as the coiled implications in the

offhand final line – the manager casually offers the bottle that has

resulted in Michelle’s near dismissal to the assistant manager –

are allowed to resonate, the fiction of Britain as a meritocratic

society is sharply laughed off stage. A longer and more developed

version of this would be very exciting to see."

                                                           - Exeunt Magazine, 4 stars