Ben Sanders, Jonathan Tan, Jennifer Dzialoszynski and Sochi Fried in Consumption Patterns, Photo by Samantha Hurley
Consumption Patterns, showing at the 2020 Next Stage Festival, is presented as a series of monologues, held together by a strong thematic through-line and an epic, trippy sequence that plays like a fever dream of dystopian, capitalist excess.
Playwright Kevin Shea has crafted striking personalities, intensely relatable in their desires, obligations and obsessions. We get brief glimpses into their struggle to stay afloat in a sea of consumer products, societal expectation and a looming of awareness environmental disaster.