"Darts," I am told by Sky Sports commentator Sid Waddell, "is working-class theatre".
He was the young, working-class Jewish writer, lionised by a middle-class theatre in a state of flux.
And he insists on showing characters familiar to the overwhelmingly middle-class theatre audience, saying:I write about most of us, rather than just some of us.
Entertainment Weekly said "Jerusalem triggers goosebumps", and New York Time Out wrote: "Anyone who cares about thrilling, world-class theatre must see Jerusalem".
Some things, such as a particularly good school, a world-class theatre, or specialised high-wage employment aren't widely and evenly distributed.
Back in the 1950s, national newspaper critics were mostly London focused, covering what the radical director Joan Littlewood called "complacent, well-behaved, middle-class theatre".
In the 1980s, part of the appeal of Karge's monologue was that it breathed new life into a dying genre: working-class theatre.
In 1983, at what may have been the height of Caracas's allure, the first line of its new subway network opened, as did the Teresa Carreño, a world-class theatre complex.
The Volksbühne, conceived in the early 20th century as a place where working-class theatre could meet avant garde art, holds a status in Berlin's cultural landscape comparable to that of the legendary Berghain nightclub.
In Cartwright, an unemployed actor who had sent his unsolicited monologues to the Royal Court, middle-class theatre found a new, authentic working-class voice, its own back-street Beckett.
