🎭 The woes of big-box retail workers take center stage in 'In the Back/On the Floor' at StageLeftTheatr. | ✍️ Kelly Kleiman
If verisimilitude and timeliness were all it took to create a great play, Ken Green’s world premiere comedy-drama about working in big-box retail would be a home run. Its dialogue captures every cliche and bit of doublespeak in the corporate human resources dictionary, not to mention every grouse and plaint ever uttered in a workplace—and Stage Left chose to open it just before International Workers’ Day.
Through 5/28: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM; Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago, 773-883-8830,But spending 90 minutes or so with complaining coworkers is something we all need to get paid for, and once the piece devolves into agitprop about unionizing, it abandons both characters and plot to hammer home the theme. It also ends with a whimper rather than abang, one scene too late.
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