Tag: Eat the Rich
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Clean Break, Big Stage: How Cleaning Toilets in Cambridge Shaped Jade Franks and Her Hit Play
From Cleaning Loos to the Spotlight In a unlikely ascent from a working-class student to a celebrated playwright, Jade Franks turned the back-of-house chore of cleaning toilets in Cambridge into a driving force behind her award-winning play Eat the Rich (But Ma…). Franks, who balanced full-time studies with a job scrubbing loos, has transformed a…
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Eat the Rich Jade Franks: Cambridge Cleaning Inspires Bold Theatre
From Cleaning Toilets to Center Stage Jade Franks’ life could be mistaken for a script about ambition gone rogue: a working‑class student at Cambridge, navigating full‑time studies while scrubbing loos. It was in the rhythm of mops and cleaning chemicals that she found the spark for a voice she would later channel into Eat the…
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Jade Franks on Cambridge’s Cleaning Blues: How a Toilet Scrub Fueled Eat the Rich
From Cleaning Toilets to the Stage: Jade Franks’ Unlikely Journey While many Cambridge students chase polo scholarships or pristine reputations, Jade Franks found her rhythm in a very different classroom: the campus lavatory. A working-class student who moonlighted as a cleaner, Franks balanced full-time studies with the real, gritty work of scrubbing loos. Her experiences,…