Nickel and Dimed
By Joan Holden
Directed by Brian Cook
October 25-November 3

Nickel and Dimed by Joan Holden
(based on the book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich)

“Can a middle-aged, middle-class woman survive, when she suddenly has to make beds all day in a hotel and live on $7 an hour? Maybe. But one $7-an-hour job won’t pay the rent: she’ll have to do back-to-back shifts, as a chambermaid and a waitress. This isn’t the first surprise for acclaimed author Barbara, who set out to research low-wage life firsthand, confident she was prepared for the worst. Barbara Ehrenreich’s best-seller about her odyssey is vivid and witty, yet always deeply sobering. Joan Holden’s stage adaptation is a focused comic epic shadowed with tragedy.” – Dramatists Play Service