Right now thousands of protestors "occupy" Zuccotti Park, across the street from Four World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, to protesting the economic polarization of America. Some see this event as a disorganized mob squatting in the name of class envy. Others view it as the vanguard of American progressivism, a necessarily chaotic response to an economic hydra. Either way, it's pretty obvious to most of us that the middle class lost adequate governmental representation, and some of us have had enough. While I can't claim any great insight into this debate, what I can say is it's just one visible expression of an old conversation. As proof, Toy Boat Theatre offers The Zoo Story, Edward Albee's 1958 two-hander in one act. Director Brie Yost wisely sets the play in the mid-‘60s and allows us to observe the parallels for ourselves.

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[Toy Boat Theatre, The Zoo Story, through Oct. 22, $20, 7 p.m. dinner, 8 p.m. performance, 9 p.m. live music Thurs.-Sat., 1314 Martin Luther King Way, Tacoma, 253.879.3330]