Little Pieces of Gold presents
THE CLASS CEILING
A night of short plays about social class by award winning playwrights
Southwark Playhouse 20 March
Bread & Roses Theatre 17 & 18th April
Twenty years ago the view that social class no longer mattered was widely shared across the political spectrum. John Majors vision of a classless society was echoed a few years later by Tony Blair who insisted that the class war is over. Looking across the landscape of Britain today these views look quaint indeed. Motifs of class and inequality proliferate. The familiar pictures of Boris Johnson, George Osborne and David Cameron swaggering at Oxford Universitys Bullingdon Club symbolise the languid power of a privileged elite. Poverty porn has become a staple across the broadcast media. The remarkable success of the Scottish Nationalist party followed by the unexpected election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader testify to the resurgence of a new kind of anger about how austerity is being used to justify extensive cuts in public spending and welfare.The issue of inequality is perhaps the defining question of our time. (Guardian Oct 2015)
Asked to respond to a selection of iconic texts with issues of social class at their heart, award winning playwrights have written powerful, personal responses to Faraway and Top Girls by Caryl Churchill, Oleanna by David Mamet, Posh by Laura Wade, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and That Face by Polly Stenham. Featuring plays by Felix OBrien, Fiona Doyle, Tessa Hart, Sarah Hehir, Jaki McCarrick, Sam Steiner & Ben Worth.
LITTLE PIECES OF GOLD is a new writing company that discovers, nurtures and develops new writing from emerging and more established playwrights and engages new and diverse audiences from across the UK. We have produced the work of over one hundred playwrights at leading London venues such as Southwark Playhouse, Park Theatre and Theatre 503.
