[NEohioPAL] Review of "Skeleton Crew" at Dobama Theatre

[Bob Abelman]

Dobama’s ‘Skeleton Crew’ a powerful requiem for blue collar America 



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal



Cultural anthropology has never been more probing or poetic than Dominique Morisseau’s aptly titled “Skeleton Crew,” a case study of the working-class conscience teetering on the brink of extinction. It is a relevant, riveting and important piece of work.



The play explores big ticket items like the cycle of poverty, the oppression of the black working-class, and the demise of industrial middle-America as seen through the small lens of the breakroom of a struggling Motor City automotive plant.  There we find four workers whose morality and souls are put to the test when their survival is on the line.  In the tradition of fellow anthropological playwrights like Arthur Miller and August Wilson, Morisseau is well aware that there are greater lessons to be learned when morality fails and souls are lost. 



For more of this review, go to: www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/bob_abelman/
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