TINY DIMES
Tiny Dimes takes all that’s yucky about yuppiedom, chops it up, throws it around, then glues it back together in an absurd collage of hilarious, believable stereotypes. But this play by New York writer Peter Mattei, produced by Famous Door Theatre Company, doesn’t just spoof the people caught up in the 80s money game. It spoofs their struggle. And it comes up with the conclusion that such struggles are absurd, meaningless, and basically stupid.
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David seems to want out. He has some ideas, wants to teach grade school, run an arts community. In a subtly ironic moment he describes his utopian vision of such a community: “There will be a parking lot, and next to that there will be a house with offices for the director and director of marketing. . . . We’ll print a brochure.” But David can’t get out. No one can. Fundamentally, they’re all trapped by their own mental limitations.
