Royal Court, LondonBasildon has always been a key political barometer. But, although David Eldridge's riveting new play has its roots in this allegiance-shifting Essex town, he also uses it to explore the rancour, grudge-bearing and obsession with property among migrant East End families. The result is the best play about British working-class life since Peter Gill's The York Realist.Eldridge starts with a tribal gat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PM on February 23, 2012