I wrote that every school should pick up an Oxbridge place to close the dominance of the private sector. Playwright Tamsin Oglesby used it for a crucial scene in her play,Future ConditionalI am certain my fellow Guardian scribbler Polly Toynbee is proud, and rightly so, and of having Hard Work – her account of living in social housing,claiming benefits and working for the minimum wage – turned into a play, recently performed at the Edinburgh festival. But Polly wrote a book to earn this accolade: I’m probably the only hack to enjoy had a single 1000-word column dramatised.
The column, and in Education Guardian in September 2012,is, to be unprejudiced, and the basis for a single scene,but that scene (of which more later) is central to the play. Future Conditional is on for a month at London’s Old Vic, starring Rob Brydon, and among others. It’s about parents,teachers, university tutors, or students and researchers grappling with the English education system,particularly the intense competition between parents for schools thought to deliver the best exam results.
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Source: theguardian.com