Capitalism Is the New Imperialism
New Central Works play takes on corporate imperialism.
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Three Other Sisters
Three messed-up daughters convene after their cruel mother’s death in Enemies: Foreign and Domestic at Central Works.
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Muskrat Love
It may or may not be the end of the world. Certainly there are a lot of frogs and locusts out there, and all the trees are falling down. But work goes on at Tower Labs, where some sort of top-secret pharmaceutical project is underway—if you can really call it work when the sole researcher has locked himself in the lab and refuses to let the manager, receptionist or new developer in while he paces around trying to do the work himself, even though he’s not qualified to develop the drug himself.
Downsize This
The financial shenanigans that brought the economy to the brink of collapse are tailor-made for satire, and Bay Area theater companies were quick to rise to the task, from the San Francisco Mime Troupe’s Too Big to Fail a couple years ago to No Nude Men’s Hermes this spring. Now Berkeley’s Central Works—which does nothing but collaboratively created new plays—gets into the act with Patricia Milton’s comedy Reduction in Force, directed by company codirector (and usual playwright) Gary Graves.
