Hey everybody! I'm in a show at Rarig on the west bank; Oil! and the Jungle. We opened last week and it's fun and disturbing and disgusting and kinda sweet all at the same time! It has to do a lot with some of the issues that have come up in class; workers' rights, the meat industry, dehumanization of immigrants, the dangers of capitalism, and so on. Here's the official description...
Oil! and the Jungle facilitates a critical encounter between two of Upton Sinclair’s most famous muckraking novels and demonstrates how the themes of those works - capitalism and the degradation of the human spirit in pursuit of profit - are still relevant today. The play presents two intentionally separate yet inevitably interwoven worlds. One, the struggles of the worker in the Chicago stockyards attempting to survive in a system that values them solely for their ability to produce a profit. The other, the social elite living the "dream" in a realm steeped in corruption and deception where they play out their financial dealing on Wall Street without concern for how it will affect Main Street. The play explores the separation and interaction of these two worlds through highly physical performance, music and poetry.
Come see us! This Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. $5 student tickets on Wednesday and Thursday, then it goes to $7.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucu5RgKRxjY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-BJoE5mEU&feature=related
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