It’s Thanksgiving Day 2000, and everyone in a certain East Village apartment are up to the task except the hostess, Ellen (Beth Thompson). She is obsessing about the results from the recent Gore vs. Bush Presidential election, which, because of Florida’s sketchy voting system, remain undecided. Not only is Ellen obsessed, in Lisa Kron’s timely […]
2000 election, Alissa Jessup, Anna Deavere Smith, Beth Thompson, Chris Murray, Danielle Weathers, drama, In the Wake, Jamie M. Rea, Jane Bement Geesman, Josh Hecht, Lisa Kron, political drama, Tamera Lyn, ThanksgivingA dingy little break room in a failing Detroit automobile factory is the setting for Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morisseau‘s play about Detroit’s working class now onstage at Artists Repertory Theatre. Skeleton Crew is set in 2008, the beginning of the Great Recession, and is the third in Morisseau’s three-play cycle called “The Detroit Project”. The factory […]
2008 Great Recession, Artists Repertory Theatre, automakers, automobile industry, Bobby Bermea, Detroit, Dominique Morisseau, factory closures, Shelley B. Shelley, Skeleton Crew, Tamera Lyn, union issues, unions vs. management, Vin Shambry, William (Bill) Earl Ray, working class