When did society become so polarised? Angela (Joann Condon) reckons it was 2005 with Jamie Oliver. As a dinner lady, she had to throw out the Turkey Twizzlers when the TV chef turned his guns on junk food. It is a wonky analysis but you can see where she is coming from.
Her confusion is partly the point. Playwright and director Jamie Eastlake wants to make sense of a country pulled to Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s far-right protests and to Just Stop Oil’s civil disobedience. In a complex world, we are reassured by simple answers, but what is the actual cause of our discontent?
