Camden People’s Theatre: Job advert terms ‘position people as inferior’

Reece McMahon, executive director of Chisenhale Dance Space in east London, said on X: “This language has actually become quite commonplace in the theatre sector.

“Lots of it has come out of direct conversations with people who felt that ‘working class’ no longer reflected the depths of their experiences.

“And if anything the term ‘working class’ had been claimed by lower-middle classes and so new language needed to exist.

“I’d consider myself to a product of a benefits class, and though I don’t use the term, it more accurately captures my experience growing up.

“There is a sense of language like this further dividing an already minority and marginalised group though which I’ve always wondered how helpful that is.”