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

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

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
A polemical show blends powerful audio recordings of those at the sharp end of the austerity economy with distracting stage business

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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