Actor Pat O'Brien performs Wallace Shawn's monologue about privilege and the stark inequalities that mark a capitalist system. Shawn's piece questions a world in which a person's fate is largely decided when they are born. "I am irredeemably corrupt," O'Brien declaims at one point. He is a great solo performer, his emotions simmering right below the surface. He discovers the lines as he speaks, making each moment original rather than rehearsed. In a world that is unearthing centuries of ugly history and hegemonic assumptions, this piece is worth seeing. (7 p.m. Sat., 8:30 p.m. Tue., 5:30 p.m. Thu., 10 p.m. Aug. 13; Phoenix, 2605 Hennepin Av. S., Mpls.)
Graydon Royce
