AWARD-WINNING theatre company The Wardrobe Ensemble’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017 hit love letter to halcyon ‘90s schooldays Education, Education, Education comes to NST Campus from Tuesday til Saturday.
It’s May 1997. Tony Blair has won the election and Katrina and the Waves have won Eurovision. Channel 5 is just one month old and no one knows who Harry Potter is.
At the local secondary school, Miss Belltop-Doyle can’t control her year 9s, Mr Pashley has been put in charge of a confiscated Tamagotchi and for some unknown reason Princess Anne is attending the Year 11 leavers assembly.
Meanwhile Tobias, the German language assistant, watches on.
Things can only get better.
Combining The Wardrobe Ensemble’s trademark humour and inventive theatricality, Education, Education, Education dissects education and responsibility at the dawn of Blair’s Britain in 1997, and asks whether things really have got better.
Helena Middleton, Director and Founding Member of The Wardrobe Ensemble, said: “Education, Education, Education is the company’s 4th large ensemble show. Off the back of a sell-out Edinburgh, where we won a Fringe First and a Stage award for acting excellence, we are now enjoying an extensive National tour. The tour sees us returning to venues and solidifying our relationships with them, as well as visiting some venues for the first time.”
Tickets are available from: www.nstheatres.co.uk.
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