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...through their different approaches, both works deal with the intersection of art and labor—“Working??�� by using art as a means for glorifying the worker and welcoming the viewer into the workers’ sphere, Lehyt’s sculpture by exploiting the ambiguity innate in abstract art as a means for proclaiming that labor is impossible to understand from the outside. And both “Working??�� and the sculpture throw into sharp relief the inability of art to embody labor, particularly on a campus where so few individuals...
Ortiz decided to direct “Working??�� because, as a child, he never understood his father’s experiences as a Mexican migrant worker in the U.S. But performing as the migrant worker in a high school production of “Working??�� gave him new insight into his dad’s everyday life...
...just hard to imagine what life is like for people who have to do that type of backbreaking manual labor all day to survive,” Ortiz said. “So that’s why I thought it would be perfect to do ‘Working??�� again here. I wanted to get this point across to students...
...Ortiz’s opinion, students walk around all day with little regard for the staff members who make Harvard tick. To counteract audiences’ ignorance, Ortiz aimed to tie “Working??�� directly to Harvard itself. He approached Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), and formed a partnership. The actors in “Working??�� now wear HUCTW uniforms, and HUCTW workers attended their final dress rehearsal...
...Working??�� makes its characters readily accessible. It thrusts them on stage for all to see and presents its agenda directly. There is little ambiguity; the intention of “Working??�� is to glorify the worker, and glorify it does...