Assistance
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 3, 2012
Closed Mar 11, 2012
Opened Feb 3, 2012
Closed Mar 11, 2012
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For these young assistants, life is an endless series of humiliations at the hands of their hellacious boss, a powerful uber-magnate. In rare moments of calm when the phone calls stop rolling, Nick and Nora and their traumatized co-workers question whether all their work will lead to success -- or just more work. Leslye Headland's Assistance is a biting, high-octane satire about our attraction to power and what we're willing to sacrifice to stay in its orbit.
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Just as so many "dysfunctional family" plays (i.e. August: Osage County, Other Desert Cities) ultimately leave audiences feeling better about their own clans, Leslye Headland's scathingly funny
Assistance, now receiving its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons, may make you appreciate your job no matter what its shortcomings are.
Headland -- who scored a major Off-Broadway hit last year with the even bleaker Bacholerette -- once again appears to be writing what she knows, as she details the interaction of six employees of the unseen Daniel Weisinger, a mega-mogul of some sort who, via phone, consistently berates, frustrates, and psychologically abuses the eager young men and women who [...]