The Play's The Thing Theatre Company is a name you can trust when it comes to delivering compelling theatre, and the stage steppers return to the spotlight this week, with Austerity, from the pen of Bedford writer Mike Elliston.
It's set in the post-war period of 1945-61, when the newly elected Labour Government imposed a harsh period of austerity.
Austerity wants to start a conversation, because it's time we all started talking again as we are on the verge of another 'reassessment of the nation.'
Whereas in 1945, austerity was a response to the structures placed on economy, hope did seem to spring eternal.
But in our time? Not so. Since 2010 austerity has been on the end of the whipping arm od an ideology that blames the poor for their supposed tendencies to skive, scrounge and steal.
But, just as it proved in 1951, there are many other factors at work that make us who we really are as a modern, civilised nation, versus the on we think we are, or indeed the one we want the rest of the world to think we are.
Austerity is edgy, funny, politically charged, Brechtian and immersive - that's a whole lot of bang for your not so big buck!
Tickets are £12 and £10 and performances run nightly from Wednesday (March 29) to Saturday (April 1).
Fancy an afternoon session instead? A Saturday matinee is in place, from 2pm.
To book call 01908 254050 or visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/164893
