Beyond caring
By: Alexander Zeldin ; written through devising with the company
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781474255479
Subjects: Drama; English drama; Cleaning personnel; Night work
Description: 8PM Four people arrive to work the night shift in a meat factory. They meet for the first time. They are employed as cleaners, by a temp agency. They are all on zero-hours contracts. Every shift, they clean. Every four hours, they take a break. They drink tea or coffee together. They read magazines. They chat. As it gets light, they go home, or to another job. The cycle goes on. And on. Strangers. Until something stirs, until isolated people get too close to one another, too fast. Through investigation, first-hand experience and with the involvement of people working on zero-hours contracts, the World Premiere of Alexander Zeldin's brutally honest and darkly humorous play exposes stories of an invisible class.