Eat The Rich (but maybe not me mates x)<br /><br />Pleasance Courtyard, 2.15pm, until 25 August<br /><br />What we said: “Before studying English Literature at Cambridge, (writer-performer) Jade Franks worked at a call centre in her home city of Liverpool. Having always worked, she takes up a position as a cleaner at the beginning of her undergraduate degree, which is – she soon learns – against college rules. Certainly, working and studying simultaneously is an alien concept for her classmates, since they have never wanted for a job or been inclined to earn their own money, but they also treat her as she were from a different planet... The true conflict lies in the overt and covert classism purported by the Cambridge student elite. If you’re not in, you’re out, and in this, Eat the Rich shows that the price of fitting in moves swiftly from fantasy to become a socio-economic and moral quandary.”
