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'Poverty porn': how middle-class theatres depict Britain's poor by Lyn Gardner

Plays such as Boy, Re:Home and Yen serve up downtrodden lives for wealthy audiences " and can verge on cultural tourism. But presented carefully, they're essential reminders of the brutal inequality in modern life Related: Boy review " jobcentres and loneliness in tale of a lost generation Coming out of Leo Butler's big, compassionate and conscience-pricking Boy at the Almeida this week, I overheard somebody speculat…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:56AM on April 15, 2016

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