Inequalities

The Inequalities brings together three plays by British writer and director Alexander Zeldin. Together they form a trilogy about love, kindness and endurance in an age of austerity.

Each play is preceded by an essay that places it in context, and the volume ends with an extended conversation with the author. The stories follow ordinary people through their jobs, their homes and the communities they belong to, presented in an unadorned, realist style.

Zeldin carried out wide research across the United Kingdom and drew on the experiences of people touched by the plays' central concerns. The result goes further than a catalogue of social conditions. It portrays how people survive hardship in a way that feels timeless, and it aims to expose the shared experience of being alive that sits underneath the pressures of the present.