OpenStage Theatre & Company presents
Nickel & Dimed

Saturday, February 23rd to March 22nd, 2008 / Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday Matinees (2PM): March 9, 2008 and March 16, 2008
Thursday performance: March 20, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Lincoln Center Mini Theater, 417 West Magnolia, Fort Collins, CO
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 Ehrenreich, who set out to research low-wage life firsthand. She is prepared for hard work but not, at 55, for double shifts and nonstop aches and pains, for having to share tiny rooms and beg from food pantries, for failing to make ends meet and constantly having to swallow humiliation. Joan Holden’s vivid, witty stage adaptation captures the epic humor and indelible characters who populate Enrenreich’s best-selling novel. Nickel and Dimed is part of a month-long Beet Street program focused on poverty, which will include numerous events produced through a community coalition spearheaded by Women Give in partnership with United Way of Fort Collins, and the Women’s Foundation of Colorado.

(This production contains some adult language)

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