EAT THE RICH (but maybe not me mates x) by Jade Franks (paperback)
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A sharp, funny look at class, identity and friendship. Jade Franks’s solo show asks “What happens when a Liverpool girl crashes the Cambridge bubble?”
Winner: The Scotsman Fringe First Award 2025
Description
EAT THE RICH (but maybe not me mates x)
“If there’s one thing worse than classism and the disparity of wealth
CAST: 1 actor
EAT THE RICH (but maybe not me mates x)
by Jade Franks
“If there’s one thing worse than classism and the disparity of wealth
in this country… it’s FOMO.”
Eat the Rich (but maybe not me mates x) is a darkly funny, politically sharp solo show about class, survival and double standards in modern Britain.
Inspired by real events, it follows Jade, a working-class Scouser who gets into Cambridge and takes a cleaning job to get by, secretly scrubbing the toilets of the very people she studies alongside.
As she wrestles with code-switching, inherited shame and the exhausting mental gymnastics of trying to belong in an institution built to exclude people like her, the show lays bare the absurdities of Britain’s class system and the cost of learning to navigate it.
At a time when arts funding is being slashed and working-class voices are pushed further to the margins, Eat the Rich refuses to flatten class struggle into easy binaries. Instead, it asks: what happens when you ‘make it out’ and is the cost always a quiet betrayal of where you came from?
CAST: 1 actor
DURATION: 60 minutes
Details
| Dimensions | 198 × 129 cm |
|---|---|
| Format | paperback |
| Extent | 58 |
| ISBN | 9781068233449 |
| Publication date | 30 July 2025 |
BIOGRAPHY
Jade Franks is an actor, writer and director interested in socially engaging and comedic work. She collaborates with venues and producers as an outreach manager to invite audiences who may not otherwise come to the theatre. Jade was previously Education Associate at The Royal Court Theatre and has worked with Open Door, Clean Break and within various prisons on writing projects.
As an actor: SAGA (BBC Radio 4), Hot In Here (Gate Theatre), One Night Stand with Felix Mufti (Royal Court), Run and Painkiller (Theatre Royal Stratford East).
As an Outreach Manger: Hadestown (Lyric), Retrograde (Apollo); Death of England (Soho Place); Hot Wing King (National Theatre) and For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy (Royal Court & West End).
Assistant Directing credits include: Liberation Squares (assisting Milli Bhatia, Brixton House & UK Tour), Cuckoo (assisting Vicky Featherstone, Royal Court Theatre.)
Jade is currently on the Playwrights’ Programme at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool.
