A Review of ‘Human Resources’ presented by Nashville Story Garden and OZ Arts Nashville
As a trailblazer that continues its commitment in supporting the out-of-the-box local and international theatrical expression, OZ Arts Nashville doesn’t seem to shy away from transforming itself to accommodate the needs of the artists it hosts. For Human Resources, written by Nate Eppler (award winning playwright and director of Playground writing incubator), directed by Lauren Shouse (award winning director, currently Assistant Professor of Theatre Directing at Middle Tennessee State University) and devised and developed by Nashville Story Garden, the stage is turned into an arena, one of the more common formats of contemporary experimental theater. Following Geoff Sobelle’s Food, this is the second time I experienced a performance at OZ Arts Nashville in this format. It is very fitting for a performance that aims to expose an exaggerated portrait of corporal dynamics, its hierarchies, and the meaning(lessness) of the concept of work and work-life in today’s success-driven positivist warp. Human Resources is a purposefully fractured theatrical experience, delving into the idle work lives of the manufacturers of a pharmaceutical corporation whose external image is an inverted facade of the values it promotes. The staging has an immersive nature, and it invites the audience to a thoroughly curated encounter. A somewhatRead More
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