The poorest of America

I went to watch Nickeled and Dimed by Joan Holden on a Friday, 26th of September, at eight o’clock at night. The play was adapted from Barbara Ehrenreich’s book about the lower income citizens in America on how they survive and live on.
The story is set up like the classic Inspector Gadget cartoon show, only taken to the extremes.
The play starts out with Barbara talking to her editor on what would make a good story. The editor then challenges Barbara to write a first-person experience of an uneducated working woman’s fate in the US. Barbara (the character Ehreinrich’s character), even with the disprovement of her family, went on with the “experience.”
The first place Barbara went for her assignment is in Florida. She worked in a restaurant named Kenny’s and experienced the hard ships of minimum wage workers first hand. Over at Kenny’s she was pressured, she was abused by her boss, Philip, but also built some relationships with some of her co-workers. The ...