Barbara is prepared for hard work but not, at 55, for double shifts and nonstop aches and pains for having to share tiny rooms, live on fast food because she has no place to cook, beg from food pantries, gulp handfuls of Ibuprofen because she can t afford a doctor for failing, after all that, to make ends meet or for constantly having to swallow humiliation. Joan Holden s stage adaptation is a focused comic epic shadowed with tragedy. Barbara Ehrenreich s best-seller about her odyssey is vivid and witty, yet always deeply sobering. This isn t the first surprise for acclaimed author Barbara, who set out to research low-wage life firsthand, confident she was prepared for the worst. 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. 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.
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