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The lights turn off and a new world of appears, this unreal world is made up of fantasies and truths in our lives. The make-up, actors, stage, and lighting all work together to make it as real as possible. Theater is like a tunnel into someone else’s world. During the play you become indulged in some else’s life. You get to experience their happiness, misery, and everything else around them. Theater lets you escape your reality for a moment and dive into another. Big Love, Nickel and Dime, and Pastorela brought some reality into the unreal world of theater. Nickel and Dime is about the working poor. We believe poor people a poor by choice, but the reality is that there not. We observe a woman trying to make and ends meet. She works more than one job and she has to put up with the cruelty of customers and supervisors. We watch as she goes from job to another and we see her struggle for an apartment. She thinks out loud, so its like we’re inside her head. It makes us concentrate on her and forget about us, we become part of her.
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