Jun
15
2011
“Common People is the now-familiar story of the student blessed with inherited wealth who declares her intention to slum it, and the response this elicits. But it’s a far stranger, angrier record than familiarity has dulled it into becoming, a raging monologue over a building electronic drone. It might begin in dry, droll fashion, but by its end Common People has become a ferocious denunciation of a ruling class that, having waged successful class war, now adopts a parodic version of the uniforms, accents and lifestyles of those it defeated.”
