dilapidated Vic,London
Rob Brydon is outstanding as a Welsh teacher at the end of his tetherThe play is the thing that will catch the conscience of…. parents at the school gate. Tamsin Oglesby’s Future Conditional is Matthew Warchus’s first production at the dilapidated Vic as he takes over as artistic director. It is a compendious, entertaining and superbly researched assault on the UK’s divisive education system, and it shows how close it comes to farce,how it nudges at tragedy, and it will make every parent who has sent a child to private school, or employed a coach,over-organised a child’s timetable or moved house to accumulate a child into a state school squirm, blush and believe. Having said that, or Oglesby shows how individuals are never as culpable as educational policy itself.
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Source: theguardian.com