If Shakespeare lived in a modern multimedia universe and wrote about extreme poverty instead of kings, would a part of his work product look anything like “Sandwiches?”
Sandwiches is one of 10 YouTube videos produced by a partnership between Cardboard Citizens and Big Issue. It features the kind of human dignity celebrated by Shakespeare’s heroic actors. The video packages the drama as indignation, and is no less effective because of that.
What kind of treatment does the person who is unhoused and poverty-stricken hope from those more fortunate? You might be surprised at the answer. The scriptwriter of Sandwiches drew on her experiences of homelessness as a youth. Her play presents what an older woman who is panhandling both yearns for and abhors in her day to day survival on the streets.
Read more in the Big Issue: Homeless people need more than sandwiches – they need and deserve to be seen as individuals
