How many of us have sat around work, watching our colleagues act out one way or another, and thought, I should write a play about this? Lots. How many of us have followed through on that notion? Few. And that’s a good thing, because (a) most of us haven’t the talent and (b) what happens on the job seldom interests anybody else nearly as much as it interests us.
10 Out of 12 attempts to trace a similar evolution in a more constricted framework. Wearing the headsets hung on each seat, audience members can hear the lighting technician (Martha Lavey) work through cues, the sound guy (NPR’s Peter Sagal) go in search of less Germanic mood music, and the electricians (John Mahoney and Riley McIlveen) talk about food, at least until one of them cuts himself with his Exacto blade. The director (Shane Kenyon) maintains his weariness as a point of style while flip-flopping, perhaps also as a point of style: pulling effects he asked for only to put them back and pull them again. This actress (Christine Vrem-Ydstie) does a kind of hula, fascinated by the hypnotic undulation of her long Victorian skirt. That actor (Gregory Fenner) sticks close to his cell phone lest he miss his big break. A third (Stephen Walker)—the oldest of the bunch and something of a legend—tells everyone, “We’re not paid enough to do shoddy work.” The stage manager (Dado) fails to maintain a reasonable schedule.
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