Plebs is described as quota thoroughly modern comedy in an ancient settingquot
Rome is traditionally imagined as the home of emperors and senators, generals and gladiators, a dignified theatre of pomp and ceremony But what about the little guys, the wasters new to the big city, stuck in office jobs, unable to get the girls,
Plebs follows three desperate young men from the suburbs as they try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city a city that happens to be Ancient Rome
The show focuses on Marcus, Stylax and their lazy slave with an attitude problem, Grumio There#39s also the boys#39 ruthless boss, Flavia an expert manipulator with a private life that#39s the stuff of legend
Unlikely to be immortalised in the annals or memorialised in a frieze, Marcus, Stylax and Grumio are essentially just a bunch of Plebs
And whether they#39re wearing togas, or skinny jeans, desperate young men in any period of history are essentially cut from the same cloth
