Customer Service
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Date
2019-04-29
Authors
Allaby, Patrick
Advisor
Cooper, Tara
Andison, Lois
Andison, Lois
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Publisher
University of Waterloo
Abstract
Customer Service is a half-hour storytelling performance that uses PowerPoint and drawing to discuss my experience working at a call centre in Moncton, New Brunswick. The performance uses this autofictional narrative to discuss labour in late capitalism and the toll it can take on mental health. The piece serves as a platform to combine a variety of my interests, from storytelling and drawing to pop-music, animation, and experimental theatre. Ultimately all of these elements fold back into Customer Service and contribute to the work’s exploration of the tension between my personal need to escape capitalism and inability to do so.
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art, drawing, comics, comic performance, performance art, storytelling, call centre, labour, capitalism