As gas and electricity prices soar, this short, passionate play about Generation Z Jessica struggling to keep a roof over her head, pay bills, get a job and understand her place in the world takes the temperature of our times. Cooper’s bold writing and staging uses rather than is used by Brechtian methodology. A director and designer with a troupe of actors could mine into the layers of this on-the-pulse fable with ‘grandmother’ more representative of a wolfish governmental ‘nudge’ unit replacement in propaganda mode than a loving relative and whose pronouncements are belied by a shivering...
As gas and electricity prices soar, this short, passionate play about Generation Z Jessica struggling to keep a roof over her head, pay bills, get a job and understand her place in the world takes the temperature of our times. Cooper’s bold writing and staging uses rather than is used by Brechtian methodology. A director and designer with a troupe of actors could mine into the layers of this on-the-pulse fable with ‘grandmother’ more representative of a wolfish governmental ‘nudge’ unit replacement in propaganda mode than a loving relative and whose pronouncements are belied by a shivering reality.