C: Is for class strggles

"Below the Belt" is way ahead of its time, a timeless indictment of the quiet desperation that grows wild within the American Industry’s Byzantine system of power and the corrupt desperado's that maintain it. What we have here is the disturbingly drastic story of three dim-witted men determined to survive their pathetic jobs on an isolated industrial compound somewhere in the middle of a vast foreign desert. Theirs is a calculated offshore gluttony. Not bright, not educated, not worldly, these men are not equipped for savage global greed. But... they are employed. Let the games begin. Let the back-stabbing, throat-slitting, ass-kissing, inter-office combat begin. Our heroes are Hanrahan, Dobbitt and Merkin and they are playing in a gladiator arena of blood-drenched competition. When they set the river on fire, fireworks are set in motion. "Man without a company is a corpse.” It takes a profoundly energetic theatre company to get these statements across..enter the boys from the Rock Garden. Richard Dresser’s acclaimed dark comedy is in previews from
Thursday, October 1 to Saturday October 3rd, opening Sunday, October 4. This is a limited Engagement until October 25th. You can see this amazing piece at the Access Theatre: 380 Broadway (at White Street in Tribeca – 3 blocks below Canal) “If this is a jail it’s really pretty decent. If it’s a workplace? It’s entirely unacceptable.” These are statements that are now a sad F.A.C.T.