Guardian critic gets class conscious

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Guardian critic gets class conscious

by Aleks SierzWednesday, 03 February 2010

The Guardian's theatre blog has been buzzing with responses to critic Lyn Gardner's post asking why so many of the great and the good in the theatre world are Oxbridge grads? When I last looked, there were more than 120 responses to what at first seems to be a platitude: er, it's Britain, it's a class society, so who do you expect to be running the show?

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