Coalition for Compassion and Justice
Creating a Community-Wide Response to Poverty
Nickel and Dimed
By Joan Holden
Based on the New York Times Bestseller
Nickel and Dimed:
On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
DIRECTED BY
Jody Drake &
Randi Wise
CAST
Marnie Uhl
Jody Drake
Missy Paschke-Wood Arlene Minuskin
Parker Anderson
Bill Swahler
Tom Agostino
Mike Dummeyer
Nickel & Dimed
A presentation of the play Nickel and Dimed by Joan Holden, based on
NICKEL AND DIMED, ON (NOT) GETTING BY IN AMERICA by
Barbara Ehrenreich
Directed by: Jody Drake & Randi Wise
Featuring: Jody Drake, Marnie Uhl and Parker Anderson
February 29 - March 3 7pm Sat Matinee 2pm
Esther Hall PUMC
Thurs-Sat $15.00
Wed Evening & Sat Matinee: $12.50
"ADULT LANGUAGE AND SITUATIONS"
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 Ehrenreich’s best-selling book.
Reserve your date and seats. Pay at door at the Performance by cash, check or credit card
Praise for Nickel and Dimed
“Jarring, full of riveting grit . . . This book is already unforgettable.”
--Newsweek
“Valuable and illuminating … We have Barbara Ehrenreich to thank for bringing us the news of America’s working poor so clearly and directly, and conveying with it a deep moral outrage”
--The New York Times Book Review
“… impassioned, fascinating, profoundly significant, and wildly entertaining . . . I kept grabbing family members and phoning friends to read passages aloud.”
--O: The Oprah Magazine
“With grace and wit, Ehrenreich discovers . . . the irony of being nickel and dimed during unprecedented prosperity.”
--The Boston Globe
“Ehrenreich is a superb and relaxed stylist [with] a tremendous sense of rueful humor.”
--Los Angeles Times Book Review
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