DETROIT — Gathering research several years ago for a play she was writing set in a factory during the Great Recession, Dominique Morisseau still remembers talking to a friend who drove a Hi-Lo at a local factory.
Think what you want about the redundancy of factory work, the friend, in her 30s, didn't just like her job, she told Morisseau. She loved it. She wanted Morisseau to pass that on to whoever the playwright was working with.
"I said 'I promise I'll tell them how much you love your job,'" said Morisseau, who grew up in Detroit and is a Cass Tech and University of Michigan graduate. "The pride that she had — it's a family thing to work in factories."
