by Morris Panych
directed by Byam Stevens
July 30 - August 10

Dressler, the chief dishwasher, presides over the basement scullery of an upscale eatery, holding forth with a mixture of working class pride, Marxist rhetoric, and pseudo-Ayn Rand entrepreneurial gospel. Unfortunately, his fellow wage slaves, the ancient Moss and the downwardly mobile Emmett fail to see things his way. Canadian playwright Morris Panych brings his inimitable style (existential comedy?) to the plight of the men working in the lower depths of a high end restaurant. Walking the razor’s edge between comedy and tragedy, the play addresses the question of “meaning" in a truly original way.

“An unconscionably funny fable”
-- TorontoStage

“Funny, sad, strange and uplifting, sometimes in the same breath.”
-- Vancouver Sun

“We laugh loud as the funny surface insinuates itself into the large questions.”
-- Curtain Up