It’s been a tense couple of months for corporate executive Liz Eliason because the recession hit her where it hurts: inside her designer purse. A casualty of embezzlements and accounting fraud, Liz was enjoying a cushy career as a top-level administrator at the pseudo company, MPI, when she received the news from her boss one day that she had been axed. It was goodbye to her hefty six-figure salary and hello to unemployment, financial distress and addressing the needs of a needy family for the savvy and sassy wife and mother.
Atlanta’s resident playwright, Janece Shaffer’s new play, BROKE, which is now playing at the Alliance Theatre at the Woodruff on the Hertz Stage, brings to life the familial and financial problems of the Eliason family coupled with humor from Puerto Rican community organizer Evalyn Rentas (played by the one and only Elisabeth Omilami. Her understudy is Linda Carnes). –yvette caslin
