American Hero
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“Three losers working in a Subway-type sandwich franchise may not sound like promising material for brilliant comedy and cutting social satire, but Bess Wohl has achieved both sensationally in her new play, American Hero… You can only marvel at how Wohl gets the heartbreaking human damage these characters suffer so right, and yet, because you come to admire their gallows humor, courage, decency, and true grit, you leave the theater walking on air.”
Three ounces of meat. Two ounces of cheese. Four ounces of lettuce. Seventeen-year-old Sheri and her co-workers at a new submarine sandwich franchise have honed their skills making everything from the Turkey Torpedo to the Big Kahuna Tuna exactly as specified in the corporate manual. But when the franchise owner mysteriously disappears, they are forced to improvise, and Sheri takes charge of the ragtag band of “sandwich artists.” See just how far they’ll go to keep their shop afloat in this tale of the struggle for optimism in tough times, the power of sandwiches, and the messy American Dream.