Why Don’t American Playwrights Today Ever Write About Labor Unions?

“Why are unions off-limits? For the same reason corporate boardrooms and the 1% who haunt them are usually left out of the dramatic picture. A fear of looking at the ‘invisible’ levers of power in the real world, a reluctance to invite charges of being didactic, and anxiety about alienating audience members and the moneyed classes (bankers, corporate leaders, lawyers, etc) who fund or support performance events.” Bill Marx focuses on the issue – and on one new play that deals with it (partly).