Summary
Since I missed [Dorothy]'s 2004 premiere at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co., my only point of comparison for the company's current production is the unfortunate reality of the original period. And [James McManus]' play does indeed capture the self-delusion, sparked by desperation and despair, of furloughed mill workers fighting to save a shuttered blast furnace. But it marginalizes, even trivializes, the very real, year-plus-long protest and plans to revive Dorothy through some sort of employee buy-out. Support was not just by a handful of quixotic steelworkers, as it seems here, but community-wide, and "Fort Duquesne" (as their encampment was called) drew national and international support. Hardly mentioned amid the play's sturm und drang is the callous management (and mismanagement) of US Steel.
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Dorothy 6
Dorothy 6
THERE ARE many reasons I'd rather forget about the 1980s, and James McManus' Dorothy 6 stirs up most of them: Reaganism, t...See the full content of this document
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