November 17th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
By Joan Holden
Based on Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich.
Presented as part of the Krost Symposium
Jackson Auditorium
Free
Barbara Ehrenreich's best-selling, firsthand account of life in low-wage America is vivid and witty, yet always deeply sobering. Joan Holden's stage adaptation is a focused comic epic shadowed with tragedy, introducing us to a cast of characters who wage their life struggles with a gallantry that humbles Barbara, and the audience. The play shows us the life a third of working Americans now lead, and makes us angry that anyone should have to live it.
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