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Eat the Rich (but maybe not me mates x)

By Jade Franks
Directed by Tatenda Shamiso Fri 12 Jun – Fri 3 Jul 26 70 minutes
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Soho Theatre – Soho Age Recommendation: 16+ Running time: 70 minutes

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After smash-hit, 5★ sell-out runs at Edinburgh and Soho, Eat The Rich transfers to our main house this June.

A hilarious, politically sharp story of a working-class Scouser navigating Cambridge University, hiding her cleaning job, and exposing privilege with wit and charm.

Inspired by Franks’s own time as a working-class student at Cambridge, the show follows Jade, a Scouse fresher juggling secret cleaning shifts with the culture shock of Oxbridge privilege. With razor-sharp wit and a dozen unforgettable characters, Eat the Rich exposes the absurdities of class, money and belonging in Britain today.

Listed in The New York Times among the ‘Buzziest Acts of the Fringe’ and in The Telegraph’s Top Plays to See, Eat the Rich has cemented Jade Franks as one of the UK’s most exciting new voices.

Scotsman Fringe First Award 2025 Winner
The Holden Street Theatres Award 2025 Winner
The Filipa Bragança Award 2025 Winner

Originally supported by Boundless Theatre’s Accelerator Programme.
27th June Matinee – BSL Interpreted performance – interpreted by Sumayya Si-Tayeb

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Reviews

'Jade Franks – remember the name – skewers the institution of class privilege in a performance that is as funny as it is politically stinging.'
Guardian
'Franks brings the monologue form back to life through sheer force of personality.'
Financial Times
'What elevates this show is Franks’s high-energy performance and bulldozer charm; it’s impossible not to be won over.'
Telegraph
'A brilliant debut.'
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Creative Team

Writer

Jade Franks

Director

Tatenda Shamiso 

Producer

Jasmyn Fisher-Ryner / JFR Productions

Production Manager

Elle Kilcullen

Set & Costume Design

Claudia Casino 

Associate Set and Costume Designer

Miranda Cattermole

Lighting Design

Zoe Beeny

Composer & Sound Design

Roly Botha

Movement Director

Sean Ting-Hsuan Wang

Dramaturg

Ellie Fulcher

Stage Manager

Lauren Lambert Moore

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