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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Stuffed review – urgent warning about food poverty drowned out by clowning

Stuffed by Ugly Bucket at the Pleasance Courtyard.
Pop politics … Stuffed by Ugly Bucket at the Pleasance Courtyard. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

This drama’s title alludes both to a top tier of society over-stuffed with wealth and those on the bottom rung who really do seem to be “stuffed” in the face of hostile government policy.

It is this desperate and often invisible underclass that Ugly Bucket theatre company’s part verbatim play, part musical and part absurdist mime, focuses on in relation to food banks and the nexus of poverty that creates hunger.

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