Javaad Alipoor and Peyvand Sadeghian. Photo courtesy of Woolly Mammoth.
As the world has now officially crossed over the one-year mark of a global pandemic, nothing and everything feels like it’s changed. Time has flown by, yet we continue to make memes about it still being March 2020. We acknowledge the increase in burnout and screen fatigue, yet we continue to turn to our devices to stay connected to others.
The perception of time is just one of many themes pulled apart and put back together in The Javaad Alipoor Company’s production of “Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran.” This installment of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s 2020-2021 season is fast-paced, chaotic, and chock full of statistics on consumerism, climate change, and globalization that seemingly seek to shock the viewer into questioning existence, as an individual and a society.