The Oxford Student - Official Student Newspaper

Payback time

Although director Dusan Farrington is well aware of Can't Pay Won't Pay's fortuitous link with student fees, he resists cashing in on this. He keeps the setting in contemporary Milan, where inflation is rocketing and Antonia and Margherita, two housewives are hoarding like squirrels. He admits he was tempted to set it in an Oxford student house, but fortunately he didn't: in a play centred on farce and escapism, the last thing you'd want to be confronted with is a recreation of your own grisly student digs....