The cast of Financial Slavery: The College Debt Sentence is made up of students facing generation’s ‘biggest political, social, economic crisis’
Debt-laden students don’t often make it to the theater in New York City, but this time, they are on stage. And the play’s author is hoping her work will help highlight one of the hottest issues of the 2016 election.
The cast of Financial Slavery: The College Debt Sentence, an independent play that has been selected as one of the plays for this year’s New York City fringe festival, is not made up of professional actors. Some have just graduated high school; others are in college. The one thing they all have in common: they have all been affected by the surging price of college education. And they are talking about it – the decision to attend cheaper public colleges, dropping out due to lack of money, being thousands of dollars in debt.
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