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The Employee Dharma Handbook
With a keen eye for perfectly timed pacing of multiple scenes packed with increasing tensions and conflicts — those of discrimination, class, relationship, family, and personal identity (not to mention also IPO or no-IPO) — Snehal Desai deftly directs Geetha Reddy’s “The Employee Dharma Handbook” as the opening production of TheatreWorks fifty-sixth season.
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Looking for a show to see soon? Here are Eddie’s recommendations for current must-see shows.
Other recent reviews
Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri
W.S. Gilbert (libretto) and Arthur Sullivan’s (music) satire of the English’s male-dominated society and government– the operetta “Iolanthe or The Peer and the Peri” — is now in a fantastically imaginative and altogether hilarious production at the ODC Theatre by the City’s much esteemed for seventy-four years company, Lamplighters Music Theatre.
SCABMUGGERS
Even though as a new play it still needs some tightening and adjusting, The Freight’s SCABMUGGERS by Yvonne Martinez leaves lasting impressions through some powerful performances and a script that both moves and educates its audience.
Absolutely Science Fiction!
For their latest premiere of short stories brought directly from the page to the stage with no written word omitted, Word for Word and Z Space present “Absolutely Science Fiction! … Stories by Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut.”
Two Gentlemen of Verona
While modern audiences sometimes have trouble swallowing some of the more unrealistic and disquieting aspects of the play, Silicon Valley Shakespeare under the wildly imaginative and insightful direction of Thomas Gough cleverly plops the action in the neon and glow of the 1980s with an ongoing soundtrack of the decade’s hits that ensures its “Two Gentlemen of Verona” is a modern-day update that totally works for an evening of laugh-out-loud entertainment.
Arab Spring
The co-production by Golden Thread and SFBATCO of Denmo Ibrahim’s “Arab Spring” is nothing short of a must-see in a world premiere that hopefully will have a long life on stages coast-to-coast.
