Play rooted in economic crisis
The Herald|February 08, 2024
SOARING food prices, outrageous energy bills, wages failing to keep up with inflation. It all sounds a bit familiar - yet a play to be performed by a Plymouth theatre company next month was actually written 50 years ago.
CLARE AINSWORTH
Play rooted in economic crisis

The Tamaritans next offering is Low Pay, Don't Pay originally written by Dario Fo in 1974 in response to an economic crisis in Italy.

Yet the play is set to chime with the struggles and frustrations many of us are feeling today.

A spokesman for The Tamaritans explained the background to the story: "Following the outrageous rise in energy and food costs the ordinary everyday folk suddenly decide enough is enough.

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