Assistance
by Leslye Headland 		Hot Rejects Productions - Winnipeg, MB
V.4 - CCFM Salle Pauline-Boutal 
Assistance is a quick-moving comedy about our attraction to power and what we're willing to sacrifice to stay in its orbit.

For these ambitious (and somewhat masochistic) assistants, life has become a series of corporate humiliations and shortcomings. As this troupe of traumatized co-workers attempt to make it through each work week without being fired, they find solace in shared misery, loneliness and a shocking lack of self-respect. Like Succession...but with less money and a better-looking cast.

Don't miss this biting, 75-minute comedy!

Cast:
Anaka Maharaj-Sandhu , Reena Jolly, Jared Wonago, Justin Fry

Director:
Anaka Maharaj-Sandhu & Matthew Paris-Irvine

 		Show Info:
75 minutes
Genre:
Play-Comedy

Audience:
Parental Guidance

Coarse Language

Thu July 18 4:30 PM
Fri July 19 12:45 PM
Sat July 20 8:15 PM
Tue July 23 8:15 PM
Thu July 25 1:45 PM
Fri July 26 6:00 PM
Sat July 27 11:00 AM
Sun July 28 2:45 PM

Assistance

Hot Rejects Productions —CCFM Salle Pauline-Boutal

This was a wild, extremely entertaining ride. We are dropped into the middle of a fast paced office environment, and the chaos energy is very visceral. A script filled with engaging dialogue, we witness several assistants to a seemingly diabolical boss scramble to keep his life in order. I feel as though the show is a vivid demonstration of the cult of personality, and the raw moments of humanity experienced by those that are driven to heed someone superior’s every beck and call. Its a world very unfamiliar to me, having worked in very few office settings, but I appreciated the aspects of the workplace culture that I still found relatable. Thoroughly entertaining and well written, I would definitely recommend this to anyone who’s ever had the thought “I do not get paid enough for this”. It’s a very fun show.

Calantha Jensen