SYNOPSIS

Angel, the heart and mind of top management, is ill. As a way of attacking the symptoms, he brings together victims of harassment to get a better understanding of the issue and therefore, cure himself. Victims include: Zip, a machinist; Dick, an executive; Miyumi, an accountant; Manuel, a warehouse supervisor; and Cherie, a receptionist (cast is diverse). In Part I, Angel has each worker act out their experiences. Scenarios include hostile environment, an office romance, quid pro quo, women working in male-dominated areas, gender harassment and cultural harassment. In between scenarios, they talk about their varying reactions to each others experiences. Topics discussed include women's physical vulnerability, how men and women communicate differently, sex and power, how women have changed certain workplaces, boundaries and personal experiences that condition reactions to sexual harassment.

In Part II, Angel decides these workers should be able to resolve their own issues of sexual harassment and asks each worker to come up with a "fantasy solution." After finding the first fantasy solution unworkable, he asks workers who acted the part the perpetrator of sexual harassment to come up with a fantasy scenario. The scenarios are at the very least amusing, and at the very most ridiculous. After one of the workers walks out in frustration and announces her intention to find a lawyer, Angel takes her place in a fantasy solution. Experiencing sexual harassment for himself, he decides that the problem is systemic. He determines that if top management takes preventive measures, and creates and enforces an anti-harassment policy, he just might relieve himself of his symptoms, although he has a long way to go before getting healthy.

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