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Eat The Rich (but maybe not me mates x)

Pleasance Courtyard, 2.15pm, until 25 August

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.”

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00:00Another Fringe first winner is Jade Franks with her show Eat the Rich. Hi Jade.
00:04Hello, you alright? Yeah, tell us a little bit about the show.
00:07So the full title is Eat the Rich but Maybe Not Me Mates, which is, kind of
00:12encapsulates everything that the show is about. It's about being around really
00:16posh people when I was at university, but also coming to understand that they
00:19are kind of just people and as much of a victim of their circumstance as I am
00:22being from a work class background. The play is about classism and it's about
00:26the disparity of wealth in this country and it's also about just feeling
00:29left out and what it means to have FOMO for something that you don't even
00:33really want to be part of anyway. And how does it feel for the play to have won a
00:37Fringe first award? Incredible. I think we're still taking it in, me and the team
00:41we're incredibly grateful and I'm glad that the ceremony was today because my
00:45parents are here visiting so they were able to come and see which is really nice.
00:48Oh that's great. Thank you so much. Thank you.
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