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All My Day Jobs

A comedy about misery

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 Have you ever been served by an incompetent waitress?
Pestered by a telemarketer? Disconnected by an office temp? 
Most likely you have encountered a person with a day job, maybe an actor. Perhaps this one.  

ALL MY DAY JOBS chronicles the journey of Kirsty, a hopeful and inventive young actress as she tries her best at dozens of day jobs:  temp, taxi counter, tourist greeter, food taster, perfume spritzer, enumerator, carny, dancing cocktail waitress . . . dancing cocktail waitress?? 
Her multiple attempts to fake it in the real world bring disastrous, hilarious results.  
                 
55 minute one-act play written and performed by Kirsten Van Ritzen          
Published in "ONE FOR THE ROAD: New Plays for One Actor" Anthology edited by Kit Brennan (Signature Editions)  
  

"Every new adventure in abasement is presented with wit and charm, in a show that’s lovingly staged by an obviously wicked talented actress.  The laughs are plentiful, with the odd jolt of jarring reality, as Kirsten watches her childhood friend forge ahead with a dream life, and she can only move on to the next temporary gig, a life of endless searching, as she so aptly describes it.  The whole otherwise hilarious show is given a lovely, bittersweet aftertaste that reminds us this isn’t just a goof of a show…it’s life for a lot of actors.  Most of them, even.  And it’s wonderful to have it presented to us by such a great performer in such a killer play. " ~ Kevin Reid, The Visitorium 

PRODUCTION HISTORY 
Remount starring the playwright Victoria Event Centre (Aug. 2016); performed by Mary Jean Doyle at Elizabeth Bairdmore One-Act Play Festival, Cape Breton University (2014);  excerpts performed by Lorraine James at Wild Women Cabaret, Sarasvati Productions, Winnipeg (March 2013);  The National Post published excerpt for Summer Jobs series (Sept. 2, 2012);  Premiere tour starring the playwright, directed by Ian Ferguson, original sound design Alexander Brendan Ferguson (Regina, Vancouver 2008)  

 Feature article in Nexus newspaper (Aug. 2, 2016)

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