Children's Children, Almeida Theatre
Plays about media folk and creatives, such as Joe Penhall's Dumb Show and Stella Feehily's O Go My Man, are not uncommon in British theatre. They usually have recognisable middle-class settings, recognisable middle-class characters, and a couple of handfuls of punchy one-liners. The writing and acting usually veers from soap-opera parody to perceptive analysis of the way we defined by our media-fuelled obsessions. So…