Over the last week (our first week of rehearsal!), the APP team has been exploring our own perceptions of and stories about campus workers, examining our own interactions with workers, (not to mention the physical structures that facilitate that - or don't), and exploring questions we have about the Living Wage Campaign itself.

Check out all the questions and ideas we threw up on the board at the end of the week:

THEMES in improv scenes and created images:

Barriers
Divide
Everyday life
Frustration on both sides
What's taken for granted?
Money issues
More than meets the eye - things we would never know
Behind the face-to-face
Assumptions
Cool with status quo
"Serves them right"?
"Don't need to be making..."
Image of confrontation

QUESTIONS we want to ask:


What's behind the barrier?
Why is there a barrier?
Should there be a barrier?
What's going too far? Us, campaign, etc.
What are you going to lose vs. What are they going to gain?

Is there a responsibility here?

Does SHE care about ME?

LET'S EXPLORE...

Math on stage???
NU Pakistan & NU Haiti -- What is the difference???
"One time tragic event vs. a continual systematic problem"
We can solve this!
Gift!  Okay, we're done now
"People were dying"
Workers in uniforms vs. own clothes????
People on the El with an NU Cuisine shirt
Students: why pay more vs. fuck it
What's that $10 worth to you?  Can we quantify it?
"You can't get shit for one dollar"
LWC fighting the freshman 15! =)
Are there things about this job that they enjoy?  Would they switch jobs if they had the chance?
Kids vs. Workers why do you go/work here?
Norris giving jobs to people fresh out of jail
Guy at Sbarro and college parties
Student workers in Norris vs. other workers
Visibility!!
NU students work on upper levels of Norris
Discomfort when entering "worker areas/times"
Elevators

Do you have comments or questions for us? Have YOUR say!

Love,

The APP Team