First Night: People; Lyttelton Theatre, London

In Alan Bennett's 1980 play Enjoy, the last back-to-back house in Leeds is demolished and reconstructed brick by brick in a museum " with Mam still living in it as a part of the exhibit. Awkward questions about the nature and purpose of preservation are raised again now, at the opposite end of the social scale, in Bennett's highly entertaining new play People, which takes an outrageously funny and provocative swipe a…

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