An Off the Boards Discussion of Annie Dorsen’s “A Piece of Work”

SDW: I didn’t much enjoy the show — at least not emotionally. Intellectually I loved it and in no small part because I felt like it failed kind of spectacularly as theatre. This is all the more interesting to me because it feels very close to success. A bit more humanization one way or another could have brought it together. Continue reading An Off the Boards Discussion of Annie Dorsen’s “A Piece of Work”

Arts & Entertainment, Theatre

At On the Boards, A Piece of Work Challenges Noble Reason, Finite Faculty

Great works of theatre often take a thing we know and change small pieces of it in order to help us see it and our world anew. A Piece of Work takes the opposite approach, reordering the context and fabric of the piece to raise questions about larger structures including our understanding of the performer/audience relationship. Continue reading At On the Boards, A Piece of Work Challenges Noble Reason, Finite Faculty