Smile, Wal*Mart, you're on stage.(NEWS IN BRIEF)
American Theatre, October, 2006 by Hart, Sarah
AROUND THE COUNTRY: As Wal-Mart frequented the late-summer headlines, dramatists took on the box-store behemoth with varying degrees of political fervor, anger and nudge-nudge satire.
The (smiley-faced) icon of corporate overreaching, of course, demands a fringe send-up, and Madison, Wis., duo Catherine Capellaro and Andrew Rohn delivered their campy Walmartopia to the New York International Fringe Festival in August. With more gravitas, Kia Corthron handles similar issues (working women, unionizing) in Sam's Coming, which she workshopped at New York Stage & Film and ...
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