In SKYLIGHT, Hare pits the rich, successful, capitalist (Tory) Tom against the poor, striving, socialist (Labour) Kyra in a battle of ideals. In 1995, there was no question who was “right” and who was “wrong”. Now, we are able to watch this conflict with the benefit of hindsight and those definitions are much more difficult to distinguish.

In many ways, 2010 is the perfect year to stage a revival of this play, as we sit yet again on the cusp of an election in which both parties frantically scrabble for the solution to our failing schools. In a demonstration of how little has changed in the education landscape in the last 15 years, we have decided to set it in the present day without changing a single word of the original script to update it, and – though the meaning of some of the sentiments has changed – the play still feels incredibly current.