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The Dishwashers
The Dishwashers
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Author: Morris Panych Publisher: Talonbooks Format: Softcover # of Pages: 127 Pub. Date: 2005 ISBN-10: 0889225249 ISBN-13: 9780889225244 Cast Size: 4 men
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About the Play:
The Dishwashers is a full-length comedy by Morris
Panych. In the steamy bowels of
an upscale restaurant, two dishwashers from different social castes
and with different philosophies, debate the meaning of their work.
The Dishwashers is a penetrating story about the people who
clean up after us all. Haplessly determined to have his own miserable
authority vindicated, chief dishwasher Dressler presides over the
steam-choked basement of an up-scale restaurant, a place of seamless
existential drudgery so utterly remote from the light of day that its
wage-slaves have no contact with anyone outside. Spouting an
indiscriminate cornucopia of working-class ethic, an interminable
babble of pride of craft, Marxist rhetoric and the virtues of
individual entrepreneurship as celebrated by Ayn Rand, Dressler
tyrannizes his co-workers relentlessly. Unfortunately, both the old
hand Moss and the new guy Emmett fail utterly to see
things his way as they stubbornly and inexplicably pursue both their
rejection of and aspiration to join the folks upstairs. Of
all our contemporary urban myths none is more absurd than the fiction
of the classless society, and Morris Panych's comedy
penetrates ruthlessly to the shock and horror of the residue of
hardened pesto soiling its porcelain heart.
The Dishwashers premiered in 2005 at the Arts Club Theatre
in Vancouver. It opened Off-Broadway in 2009 at 59E59 Theaters.
Cast: 4 men
What people say:
"This microcosm of society at
large is a brilliant and fascinating portrait of class as it exists
at every level, even the relatively invisible." — Curled
up with a Good Book
"A big existential present
lovingly packaged in grease and suds… An anti-holiday antidote for
those who take their humour black." — Hour
About the Playwright:
Morris Panych is one of Canada's most significant
contemporary playwrights. He has written more than 25 works for the
stage and directed nearly 100. He is the winner of two Governor
General's Literary Awards for Drama, the country's most prestigious
literary honour. He has won 14 Jessie Richardson Awards, three Sidney
Riske Writing Awards and five Dora Mavor Moore Awards.
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