Review: Working by Austin Museum of Art

by Michael Meigs
Published on December 04, 2008

Dave the misfit found and expressed his genius through his entrepreneurship; the Latinos pursued dignity and found it; the waitress exults in serving without being servile.

At one point during the performance in the Congress Avenue gallery of the Austin Museum of Art an actress portrayng a waitress sang out, “Right this way, party of 32!” Maybe we were more numerous, but I don’t think we got up to fifty.This was an intimate performance – five actors doing three monologues and a duologue, standing in the gallery before the photographs taken by Brazilian economist and social activist Sebastião Salgado.  Arriving half an hour …

Read more »