The making of Class
Kirsty wrote Class over a six month period in 2005, whilst juggling a full time job as a process analyst. Swapping left and right brain is a challenge that Kirsty would love to overcome by somehow making a living out of script writing. She hasn’t worked out a way of doing this yet.
Kirsty has written several pantomimes, which have drawn in the crowds at Network and has performed in several productions including Dracula as Dracula. She is looking to take Class places and continue writing for the stage.
Class didn’t start out as Class. It was essentially a ten minute sketch where five strippers, dancing provocatively say one thing with their body and something totally different with their mind - their private thoughts revealed. It then grew in to Class following several conversations about sophistication and whether or not chipped mugs, a northern accent and toilet humour jeopardises that. It gets you thinking… Just how classy are you? When you read that, did you pronounce Class with a short sharp northern A? Or did you pronounce it with the Queen’s ‘ass’?
Does it matter? Do you consider yourself to be working class or middle class or somewhere between the two? Is there such a thing anymore? Isn’t it more about whether you’re a ‘chav’ or not these days and where you buy your biscuits from?
Is Class all about what you are on the outside? The way you dress, the language you speak, how you behave in public and your conversation topics down the pub or at dinner parties? Or could it be a little deeper than that? Could Class be about the morals you live by and your rule set for life? Could it be what the people on the inside see and how you behave behind the scenes? Does cheating and lying forfeit your class? Or doesn’t it matter, as long as you look ‘classy’? Could a foul mouthed stripper on the breadline have more Class than a sophisticated charity working lady?
How classy are you?
Find out more at www.class-stage.co.uk