THE Paper Birds presents Broke at the Waterside Arts Centre in Sale on March 10 at 7.30pm.

What does it mean to be broke in 2014, as a person and as a country? Based on personal testimonies from nationwide interviews The Paper Birds return to their celebrated verbatim form to consider pennilessness in an age of personal (and national) debt

Devised and performed by The Paper Birds

There are 13 million people in poverty in the UK and over half of these people are from working families. At Christmas 2013 the Red Cross started asking for food donations for the first time since World War II. What happens when you have to resort to sex work to pay the bills, or try to give up dealing drugs only to end up at a food bank when the money dries up, too?

The Paper Birds Artistic Director Jemma McDonnell said: “Broke is the first show we are making in a trilogy about class. Armed with the statistic that the richest 1% of British people have as much as the bottom 55%, we started as we often do; by going out and speaking to people in food banks, in hostels, in charity and betting shops."

* Tickets are available from 0161 912 5616.