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Review: ‘In The Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot’ Tries to Think Outside the Box

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30.10.2024

How sadly apt, to attend In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot the day after Jeff Bezos ordered The Washington Post to refrain from endorsing a Presidential candidate. Seems the world’s richest man didn’t want to endanger lucrative government contracts should a serial bankrupter gain reentry to the White House. Was Bezos bought, or is he pre-bribing Trump? As the little girl in the meme says, “Why not both?” Regardless, here we are, watching a play set about 15 years from now, when catastrophic sea levels are swallowing American states east and west. The U.S. is going under, yet Amazon still delivers.

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Sarah Mantell’s future fable takes place in and around an Amazon shipping center in rural Wyoming—dry land for the moment. Friendly and chatty Jen (Donnetta Lavinia Grays) works a shift with taciturn newbie Ani (Deirdre Lovejoy). Boxes of various sizes trundle down a conveyer table; the yellow-vested laborers scan labels and stack boxes on a large utility cart. If you knew nothing about the play, everything would look normal. Jen reads each address label out loud—“Flagstaff, Arizona” and so forth—complaining when Ani........

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