"The good citizen is not the one who merely lives in a
Society: it is she or he who changes it to make it better.
Theatre can be the means through which you become a citizen, a
place where you imagine a future world."
-Brazilian Director
Augusto Boal
2004
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Production Photographs of
NICKEL AND DIMED
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FIRST DAY ON THE JOB
Protagonist Barbara (Moira A. Keenan, left) gets thrown in the deep end
working as a waitress opposite white trash Gail (Jennifer Linch*, right)
at "Kenny's" in Key West, Florida. Co-worker Nita
(Arianna Boykins) enters customer's orders into the computer behind
them. |
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR!
Flashback to a trendy cafe in Manhattan where Barbara (Keenan, right)
first pitches the idea of going undercover as a low-income worker to her
editor (Paul O'Hern, left) over some frothy cappuccinos. |
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LIVING ON CRUMBS
Moonlighting as hotel cleaning woman, Barbara (Keenan, left) is shocked
to see what co-worker Carlie (Arianna Boykins, right) has for lunch -- a
bag of hotdog buns, plain! |
SMOKE BREAK!
Back at "Kenny's," a worn-out Barbara (Keenan, left) enjoys a
smoke break with Czech-immigrant bus boy George (Justin Fiordaliso,
right). |
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TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT!
Barbara (Keenan, center) begins to lose it as this day on the job gets
worse and worse. Co-workers Gail (Jennifer Linch*, right) and
fry-cook Hector (Afrim Gjonbalaj, left) have run out of patience. |
ANOTHER TOWN, ANOTHER CRAPPY JOB
Relocating to just outside Portland, Maine, Barbara (Keenan, center
left) carpools to her new job at "Magic Maids Cleaning
Service" with co-workers Holly (Jennifer Fitzery, far left), Marge (Kelly M. Beuth*, center right), and
Maddy (Jessica Stuber*, far right). |
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THE THIRST FOR A BETTER LIFE
By-the-book Holly (Jennifer Fitzery, right) is quick to inform Barbara (Keenan, left) of
idiotic company rule #1: "no fluids
allowed on the job." |
SHIT-WORK -- LITERALLY!
Barbara (Keenan) walks us through the wondrous world of a scrubbing
toilets. |
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FEEDING TIME AT THE ZOO
Juggling a second job as a dietary aid at the Woodcrest Nursing Home, Barbara
(Keenan, center) does her best to feed uncooperative seniors John (Afrim
Gjonbalaj, left) and Grace (Kelly M. Beuth*, right). |
JESUS SHOPS AT MALL*MART
Now working at euphemistically entitled "Mall*Mart" in
exotic Minneapolis, Minnesota, Barbara (Keenan, right) commiserates with
Born-Again Christian co-worker Melissa (Arianna Boykins, left). |
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ANOTHER ASSHOLE BOSS
Mall*Mart Assistant Manager Howard (Leon S. Copeland, Jr.*) takes some
time out of his busy schedule to lecture the audience on the glories of
the Free Market. |
* = indicates members of the Subversive Theatre
Collective
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