Taking It to the Streets
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The Street Theater Company’s “Social Insecurity (an Operetta for the Streets)” is an overly sincere, artistically invalid bit of street agitprop. That said, it’s relatively harmless, and thankfully, it’s a musical, not actually an opera.
The story follows three teenage friends (played by 30- and 40-somethings, of course) who are full of naive optimism about the future. Clearly, the “harsh reality” of merging corporations, outsourcing to India, and “war for oil” is about to come crashing down on them. And it does, when they are all sent to Iraq.
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