Usually the news carries an item on a national problem and gives the viewer nothing to cope with his personal tragedy. Take working and not working, for instance. Unemployment statistics try to tell the story, but there are other ways –more personal, more useful perhaps. Three ways are explored here. The drama is that of an executive who is suddenly fired and then slowly reinserted into the business world through counselors. The executive is an actor, the story is true, and all of the other participants are real. We then go into a psych-drama staged for television and edited from a four-day encounter session between the unemployed and psychologists. Is it theatre? The last program is the product of a television experiment –design to record a new history of working “from the bottom up”- in which auto plant employees are invited to tell their own stories.
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