Working

'EVERGREEN'S PRODUCTION OF STUDS TERKEL'S 'WORKING' GLEAMS WITH BRIGHT SPOTS' - I think I understand why
"Working," which an appealing Evergreen Theater Conservatory cast opened Thursday night at the Pacific Arts Center, was such a flop when it
premiered in New York. Hostility, cynicism and contempt are viewed as survival skills and coping mechanisms by many New Yorkers. And
"Working" is full of attitudes that — from a cope-and-survive-in-the-big-bad-city point of view — are distinctly subversive: good will, good faith
and admiration. ...uncannily insightful. The Evergreen production, gleams with bright spots... stunning... a beautiful job

Joe Adcock, Post Intellegencer

'ETC'S 'WORKING' IS ITS OWN REWARD AND SOME EFFECTIVE THEATRE' - Working" works. ... spirited, effective piece of theater in
the Evergreen Theater Conservatory's new production... it took off like a rocket ... A basic fact of the theater is that it always involves
collaborative work; even a one-man show requires a writer, director, designers, stage manager, etc. ETC's production of "Working" underscores
this fact by having five directors, three choreographers and two musical directors — and a cast of 14, all of whom play multiple roles! Talk about
working! We're talking infinity-box collaboration here. This may seem a tortured laboring of a point, but it is precisely that point which
"Working" the book and "Working" the musical make repeatedly: namely, that collaborative work brings out the best in individuals and that
such work is necessary for social good and individual expression.

Wayne Johnson, Seattle Times

Not to work is, in the words of the poet Kahlil Gibran, "to step out of life's procession." One of the many things that impresses one forcibly in the
Evergreen Theatre Conservatory production of Working is ...vivid and exude[s] a sense of the effort and sweat and endurance ...great flexing of
muscle. At the same time it presents an intimate, interior view of working from the individual worker's perspective. The integration of song and
dance and interview has been deftly accomplished ... ETC's production is amazingly seamless... and the show succeeds

Freddie Brinster, Journal-American

The musical adaptation of Working. Studs Terkel's oral history, makes for a suprisingly engaging evening at the Evergreen Theater Conservatory.
...the whole [of] Working is a powerful script given ...sparkling life by ETC.

Grant Alden, Northwest Arts.