Athena Kugblenu
(Picture: PHOTOGRAPHY NATASHA PSZENICKI)Athena Kugblenu’s show, Shaking Her Class, is brand new. No Edinburgh Fringe run, no warm-ups, just straight into the clubby Soho Theatre basement, the perfect venue for a show that mixes profound thoughts with mischievous gags. If parts sound familiar, Radio 4 recently aired a Kugblenu special entitled Magnifying Class, and while this set unpicks similar seams it is very much a distinctive work in its own right.
As both titles suggest, Londoner Kugblenu has been thinking a lot about the class system recently. Sometimes she feels as if she has spent her entire life working out where she slots in. Her parents had a professional background, they owned china tea cups. So far, so bourgeois, but things are rarely that certain.
