2023 Audience Reviews

Company: Jackdonkey Productions
Show: Dock Work
Venue: Rarig Center Thrust

Visually Stunning and Poignant

There is little more poignant than discussions of unionizing at the current moment with countless strikes across industries, high costs of living, and low wages. Dock Work uses familiar but fresh techniques to convey its importance; rigid grids and lines the actors follow, poetry, and an incredible live band. One of it's stand-out moments is their use of a ball of red yarn, where the actors unwound it in a triangle as if workers on a line, stretching and pulling at the string only to pass it on, getting themselves and their stools more and more entangled with every pass, only then to broaden it into an intricately spun web that was both visually stunning and thought provoking. Wonderful, experimental work!