Tempodyssey
by Dan Dietz

"Mr. Dietz's postmodern fairy tale—Homer meets the Brothers Grimm and Stephen Hawking—is laugh-out-loud funny yet strangely moving…Get in on the fun, but be sure to buckle your seat belt. This is one wild ride.“ —The New York Times. ”The playwright uses temping, astronomy and poultry farming as an allegory for the feeling we can't outrun ourselves and the energetic fates which seem to follow us, no matter how hard we may strive to change or escape them. Hence the title of Dietz's work: Whether we are temps or not, we each at some point feel our lives are some sort of Olympian test, an odyssey that we have no control over. Dietz has just dressed up the age-old question a bit with talking corpses, sage-like temp goddesses and a graphic description of how one skillfully and painlessly kills chickens by hand. It all makes for some great fun, especially if you can identify with dysfunctional work environments, insecure and bullying bosses and the desire to occasionally go postal on your co"

— Austin Chronicle