Review: Steep Theatre's Paris Is a Workplace Tragicomedy With a Family Feeling

Lynda Shadrake, Amber Sallis, Michaela Petro, Alex Gillmor. Photo by Randall Starr.Paris is a workplace comedy or more accurately, a tragicomedy. I...

June 28, 2022
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Lynda Shadrake, Amber Sallis, Michaela Petro, Alex Gillmor. Photo by Randall Starr.Paris is a workplace comedy or more accurately, a tragicomedy. It's tinged with sadness, tainted with racism and with the despair of workers in low-paying, dead-end jobs. It's set during Christmas season 1995, but the intervening 27 years haven't brought much improvement in the lives of retail workers. And this Paris is in Vermont, not France. The workers aren't employed in Galeries Lafayette, but in a down-at-the-heels big box store named Berry's.

Nancy S Bishop