Camden People’s Theatre has come under fire for a job advert for a new artistic director and joint CEO, in which it says it is encouraging applications from a long tick box of under-represented groups, along with people who identify as “working-class, benefit class, criminal class and/or underclass”.
Hmm. Who exactly would identify as being “benefit class”? It smacks of middle-class people putting their foot in it at pick-up time when talking to the unpopular parents from the council estate. Anything else you want to add? “Dole-y types”? “Lazy bastard class”?
