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Alison Steadman as Kath and Neil Stuke as Mr Sloane (Arts Theatre, London 2001)
AQA (B) Literature: ‘Dramatic genres’
What if satire isn’t as edgy as satirists like to think? What if, for all its apparent sharp-witted hostility to hypocrisy, satire is, unknowingly, ironically, handin-glove with the very enemy it claims to be attacking?
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